From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "... the window start at a meaningless point within a line."
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 09:56:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhb2q664.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831tcu55jw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:15:47 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 22:46:57 +0200
>>
>> > Just turn on the 'hebrew' input method and start typing.
>
>> דוד doesn't look all that different from L2R text.
>
> Yes, that's an example. But this example is actually not what Alan
> should look at, he should look at something like this:
>
> L2R paragraph with some דוד מלך ישראל R2L text.
Ah, I was just joking about "David" being a palindrome once you throw
out the vowels. Admittedly, a barely literate joke. It's my guess one
would not even put back the vowels in Yiddish which is spelled more or
less phonetically with the exception of (non-modern) Hebrew loan words.
But I'm too lazy to look it up right now.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-17 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-30 20:45 "... the window start at a meaningless point within a line." Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-01 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 9:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-01 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 11:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-01 12:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 16:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-15 18:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-15 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 9:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-16 10:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 15:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-16 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 20:46 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-17 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-17 7:56 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-10-16 21:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-16 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 18:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-16 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 20:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-17 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-17 11:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-17 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-17 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-17 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-18 15:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-18 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 10:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-27 13:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-27 17:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-27 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 8:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-28 13:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-31 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-31 21:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 14:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01 15:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 18:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-18 14:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-18 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 10:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-19 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 11:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-19 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 12:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-19 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 13:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-19 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 19:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-27 13:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-17 15:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
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