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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
Cc: 41506@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41506: 28.0.50; RTL problem
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 17:46:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838shhxuff.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOqdjBcPE=ZD5gOhmykwS-AgE0fcmwB5a-4PuvOh9zhJdWKCxA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Pip Cet on Sun, 24 May 2020 13:05:17 +0000)

> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 13:05:17 +0000
> 
> I'm surprised by the way vanilla Emacs behaves when given RTL input:
> 
> Recipe:
> emacs -Q hebrew.txt
> 
> hebrew.txt contains (or should contain!) two newlines followed by the
> Hebrew word Ivri, punctuated, followed by another single newline.
> 
> Expected result:
> right-aligned text
> 
> Actual result:
> left-aligned text
> 
> Is that a bug, or is there something I don't understand?

It's a bug, but one that's very tricky to fix, AFAIR.  If you insert
or delete a single character, the display becomes correct.






  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-24 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-24 13:05 bug#41506: 28.0.50; RTL problem Pip Cet
2020-05-24 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-06-02 10:17   ` Pip Cet
2020-06-02 16:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-02 19:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-06  7:58         ` Pip Cet
2020-06-06  8:35           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-06 13:05             ` Pip Cet
2020-06-06 13:45               ` Eli Zaretskii

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