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Re: Displaying LRM and RLM
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Displaying LRM and RLM |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:32:24 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:45:06 -0800
> From: Don Armstrong <address@hidden>
>
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > What should Emacs 23 display for these two characters (U+200E and
> > U+200F)? On MS-Windows they are displayed as blanks; I need to type
> > "C-u C-x =" to see that these are not blanks. Is that right?
>
> These are the LRM and RLM; they're zero-width symbols that change the
> direction of text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-to-right_mark
> et al.
Well, I know very well what they are; see the Subject. I was asking
how we should display them. I think displaying them as blanks without
any visual cue to the fact that they aren't is misleading. E.g., NBSP
is displayed specially, for that very reason.
- Displaying LRM and RLM, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/20
- Re: Displaying LRM and RLM, Don Armstrong, 2008/12/20
- Re: Displaying LRM and RLM,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Displaying LRM and RLM, Jason Rumney, 2008/12/20
- Re: Displaying LRM and RLM, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/20
- Re: Displaying LRM and RLM, Jason Rumney, 2008/12/20
- Re: Displaying LRM and RLM, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/20
- Re: Displaying LRM and RLM, Jason Rumney, 2008/12/20
- Re: Displaying LRM and RLM, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/20