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Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode
From: |
Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:19:45 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:39:43 -0500 "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> wrote:
> But now I find that if I copy-paste from Emacs 23.0.90.1, the Greek letters
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> αβγδ
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> appear in Mozilla Tbird (here) in the original order but
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> בִּּרֵאשׁיתבָּרָּאא לֹהִים אלתשָּׁמַיִם וְ אלת הָ ּאָרֶ ׃
>
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> is automatically reversed without running the above command on its region. ???
> Is there invisible bidi info in the string or is it just the fact that the
> characters are Hebrew that causes this?
Presumably the latter. I guess Thunderbird works like OpenOffice.org,
which also automatically reverses the Hebrew text, and whose Help entry
for "bi-directional writing" says:
,----
| Currently, OpenOffice.org supports Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, and Arabic as
| CTL [Complex Text Layout] languages. If you select the text flow from
| right to left, embedded Western text still runs from left to
| right. The cursor responds to the arrow keys in that Right Arrow moves
| it "to the text end" and Left Arrow "to the text start".
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Steve Berman
- ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode, B. T. Raven, 2009/04/13
- Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/13
- Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode, Miles Bader, 2009/04/13
- Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode, Kevin Rodgers, 2009/04/16
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- Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode, B. T. Raven, 2009/04/16
- Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode,
Stephen Berman <=
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- Re: ncr (numeric character reference) to unicode, B. T. Raven, 2009/04/17