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diff --git a/2021/talks/bidi.md b/2021/talks/bidi.md index 340cbcea..96fc16c8 100644 --- a/2021/talks/bidi.md +++ b/2021/talks/bidi.md @@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ Mohsen BANAN -- <mailto:emacs@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net> -- محسن بنان pronouns: he/him, pronunciation: MO-HH-SS-EN <http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net> - - [[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/bidi-schedule)" raw="yes"]] ## About The Video @@ -127,5 +125,32 @@ of bidi on existing emacs applications, including: <http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/persian> -- Farsi <http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/french> -- French +# Discussion + + +- Does OS-level stuff work when you have to change character direction on the same line, like LtR numbers in a RtL script? + +Feedback: + +- This is great. I've done a demo like this for a few friends in the past as well. +- Whoever did the captions for this was spot on, the unicode characters would be challenging. +- I just love the Emacs input method framework, and I don't think a lot of latin script users know about it. +- This is really cool, it's something that I never think about from other users in other countries using Emacs. +- The captions for this conference have has an impressive amount of work put into them. +- omg! this is great. farsi 101 in emacs +- ++ to all that stuff. Great job on the captions, and the demonstrated functionality is very impressive. +- Yay for the captions! +- This has been really slick. Kudos for the captions including the Farsi characters and latin text. +- At first, I thought the captions would be unnecessary, but over time, understanding the accents for various individuals has been challenging, so the captions helped. +- One struggle I have with this input method option is, why not use an IME that's installed on the host OS? I mean, I do that with Japanese, but that may no longer work easily with qubes, so maybe it's more of a thing that'd benefit me now. + - though, I'm thinking that certain input methods don't actually simulate key-presses on virtual keyboards ... ? + - Not a primary reason, but since I'm used to configuring Emacs, I've found it a lot easier to learn to configure the integrated IMF than to configure an external one. + - I used SCIM/uim for japanese input at one put, but that was before I used emacs, it was a nightmare to set up +- I may have to try this, the IMEs I've used haven't been an issue too much in the past, but...maybe this would be better, at least I wouldn't have to worry about config on each qube. +- Banan's work on BIDI support is an eye-opener... +- yeah absolutely. it's a really great point that Emacs can always be expanded to be more inclusive to other languages in ways that are more than just Unicode related. +- bidi destorying irssi, time to find a good emacs irc client ... +- thanks for the talk...another example how Emacs is inclusive catering for all forms of text. + [[!inline pages="internal(2021/captions/bidi)" raw="yes"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/bidi-nav)" raw="yes"]] |