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24.0.50; Lao HELLO is incorrectly displayed

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Message #31 received at 5977-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 5977-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5977: 24.0.50; Lao HELLO is incorrectly displayed
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:31:31 +0300

> Cc: 5977 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:28:11 +0200
> 
> 
> Am 20.04.2010 um 11:06 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> 
> >> The Lao greetings are incorrectly rendered:
> >
> > Does the problem go away if you type
> >
> >    M-: (setq bidi-display-reordering nil) RET
> 
> YES! Many displayed strings change their shape afterwards.

I think I fixed this (revno 100013), please see if the problem is
solved for you.

(The lines in HELLO for Arabic and Hebrew still display slightly
incorrectly, but that's expected, since the fixed code only supports
strict L2R scripts.  Doing that for bidirectional scripts is on my
TODO.)

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