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Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:30:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden,
>> address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:07:05 -0400
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Seriously, though: why do you need any conditions here? An LRM will
>> > have no effect if str is not reordered, so why not put it there
>> > unconditionally?
>>
>> Suppose a user kills some text from a Gnus summary buffer which contains
>> these LRM characters, and yanks it into a latin-1 file. Suddenly, that
>> file can't be saved, even though there is no non-latin-1 script in the
>> buffer clearly visible.
>
> When you type "C-x C-s", Emacs clearly shows the characters that
> cannot be encoded as Latin-1. We all bump into such issues from time
> to time, especially when communicating via email or news articles. I
> see no particular problem here.
We see such issues in general only when there has been some external
source of foreign characters in play. But when I am copying and pasting
elements from an ASCII-only user interface showing ASCII-only summary
lines, there has not been any external source of foreign characters
involved. Emacs should not become unpredictable in an ASCII-only
environment with ASCII-only data sources. Let alone in a latin-1
environment.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, (continued)
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/05
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/05
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/05
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/05
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Jason Rumney, 2011/08/05
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/06
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/07
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/07
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, David Kastrup, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, David Kastrup, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Richard Stallman, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/08/11
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, David Kastrup, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/10