Re: Callbacks?
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.emacs.bidi |
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> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:04:18 +0900 > From: Martin Duerst <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > >2. When the created file is read (again) for editing, these strings > > should be seen (on screen) EXACTLY as it was when it was entered. > > If using the same editor, definitely. But we also found that there > can be some personal preferences, so if you changed your preferences, > the display would change. That's actually a bad idea, IMHO: the text should be saved so that any other bidi-enabled editor will display it the same. That is why fiddling with Unicode character properties is something I feel we should not do: those properties are the only common denominator of all bidi editors. I still don't understand why you are opposed to using RLM, LRM, and other special characters reserved by Unicode: after all, if the result is displayed by a bidi-compatible program, they will always behave according to UAX#9. (In XML and similar files, we could use HTML/XML directives instead of the literal RLM etc. when saving the file, but the principle remains the same: whenever the default character properties yield wrong display, use the explicit directional marks to fix that.)