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Re: [emacs-bidi] feature request: bidi isolation in ERC
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] feature request: bidi isolation in ERC |
Date: |
Sat, 26 May 2018 13:41:44 +0300 |
> From: Amit Aronovitch <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 12:54:00 +0300
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>
> I suppose this happens because of the username-prompt at the beginning of the
> lines, which causes the first
> strong letter to be taken from the username (latin - LTR).
Yes.
> To avoid this issues, the messages themselves should be bidi-isolated (as
> most current IRC clients do).
>
> One way to do that is to insert unicode characters in the buffer before and
> after the message text: insert FSI
> (U+2068) before, and PDI (U+2069). It should have no effect on LTR messages,
> and solve the issue for bidi
> ones.
I have no objections to such a solution. As I don't use ERC, I'd
prefer to receive a tested patch that does that. Can you submit such
a patch? If it is short enough, we can accept it without any legal
paperwork from your side.
Thanks.