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Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:26:18 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:30:56 +0200
>>
>> Emacs should not become unpredictable in an ASCII-only environment
>> with ASCII-only data sources. Let alone in a latin-1 environment.
>
> Dealing with email has long ago stopped being an ASCII-only or
> Latin-1-only environment.
What about "ASCII-only data sources" did you not understand? We are not
talking about the situation when a data source (like a mail) happens to
actually be bidi.
When I am replying to an ASCII-only mail, I don't want to have Unicode
direction marks pasted into its subject line or wherever else. When I
cut and paste from a summary buffer of an English-only mailing list
without any foreign-language spam or senders, I don't want Unicode
direction marks in the result. I have mm-coding-system-priorities set
to (iso-8859-1 iso-8859-15 utf-8) and I don't want it to switch without
good reason to a coding system that will unnecessarily limit my audience
to multibyte-capable readers. This list would actually start with
ascii, except that I don't know any system that would display pure ASCII
articles any worse when they are declared as iso-8859-1.
--
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, 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, 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, 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
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/10
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/10