From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:07:20 +0200 Message-ID: <831v6ics5j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83bp5te3s8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290111924 23365 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2010 20:25:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 21:25:20 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJB2j-0001kw-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:25:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJB2j-0007aF-3L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:25:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44032 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJAnz-0002zb-BG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:10:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJAnM-0007mX-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:10:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:52067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJAnM-0007mB-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:09:24 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LC300700JV0UP00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:09:22 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.249.126]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LC3005KUJZJUHN0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:09:22 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:132832 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > Kenichi Handa > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:24:57 -0500 > > I largely agree, since it's more in keeping with the Emacs tradition, > but again if digits follow, this is ambiguous: \u123456 (tho this could > also be displayed as \u1234\ 56). I think it's extremely unlikely to have \u1234 followed by 56, and we already have that problem with octal escapes anyway. Also, don't forget that \u1234 is displayed in a special face, which makes it stand out when followed by normal characters.