From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Displaying LRM and RLM Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:45:06 -0800 Message-ID: <20081220104506.GV11238@rzlab.ucr.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229769933 19436 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2008 10:45:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:45:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 20 11:46:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LDzLy-000349-6A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:46:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42049 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDzKl-0005qz-G9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:45:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDzKd-0005oa-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:45:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDzKb-0005o4-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:45:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43097 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDzKa-0005o1-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:45:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:41920) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LDzKa-00033Q-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:45:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (archimedes.ucr.edu [138.23.92.79]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with SMTP id mBKAj6F7002267 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:45:07 -0800 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 25836 invoked by uid 1000); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:45:06 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107112 Archived-At: 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. Don Armstrong -- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu