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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bidirectional text and URLs
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:21:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h9xf6rzs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k32b6u5l.fsf@gnu.org>

> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:34:46 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> The first one sounds pretty complicated.  I need to think about its
> feasibility.

A simple (as in "KISS") strategy that should always work is to copy
the entire physical line around the region.  The disadvantage is, of
course, that it could be very long in some rare cases.  Optimizing
that would probably require replacing runs of certain types of
characters with a single representative character of the same type,
and keeping all the directional controls.

We could also replace strong directional characters L/R/AL with the
corresponding mark (LRM/RLM/ALM), which are displayed as (thin)
spaces, and so will be almost invisible, keeping an illusion of
copying just the region of text and nothing else.

Is this good enough?



  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-01 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-28  2:51 Bidirectional text and URLs Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-28  3:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-28 14:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29  6:09     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-29  8:22       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 17:05         ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-29 17:13           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 17:49             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 17:54               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 18:24                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 18:29                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30  9:38                   ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-30 15:21                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 18:18               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 18:33                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 18:47                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 19:12                     ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-29 19:31                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 19:39                         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-29 20:13                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 16:26                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 17:29                   ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-30 17:57                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 18:18                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 17:53                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 18:13                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 19:06                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 19:10                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 20:41                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 19:19                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 21:05                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 21:36                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01  3:45                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 16:19                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01 17:39                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 17:49                                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01 18:22                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 18:28                                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-02 14:17                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 16:31                                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01 19:15                         ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 19:15                         ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 19:34                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 20:21                             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-12-01 20:30                               ` David Kastrup
2014-12-01 20:45                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 14:45                                   ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 14:45                               ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 15:03                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03  8:39                                   ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-03 17:39                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-04  9:41                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-05 11:16                                         ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-05 11:28                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-05 22:43                                             ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-05 23:15                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-06 12:06                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-06 12:59                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-05 22:43                                             ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-05 23:17                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-06 12:06                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 14:44                             ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 15:00                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03  8:39                                 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-30  9:38               ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-30 15:27                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 10:17                   ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 16:17                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 14:42                       ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 14:48                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03  8:38                           ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-03 11:56                             ` Nicolas Richard
2014-12-03 17:12                               ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-03 17:38                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-04 14:30                               ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-04 15:53                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-04 17:30                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-04 20:25                                   ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-02 14:42                       ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 14:52                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 18:05                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 17:13                             ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-03 18:14                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-05 22:44                                 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-05 23:19                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-07  9:20                                     ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-07 15:50                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08  0:26                                         ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-08 15:46                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 17:13                           ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-03 17:13                           ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-29 17:14         ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-30 13:42         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-30 15:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 10:18           ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 16:18             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 18:32               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-01 19:12                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 20:08                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-01 20:42                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 14:42               ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 14:54                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03  8:39                   ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-28 11:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 13:58   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-28 19:49     ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 21:02       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-29  0:26         ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 22:26       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 14:24   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-28 14:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29  6:17   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-28 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 17:09 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-28 18:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 17:03     ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-29 17:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30  9:37         ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-30 15:16           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 10:18             ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 16:02               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 19:28   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-29 17:04     ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-29 17:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30  9:38         ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-30 15:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 23:39             ` chad
2014-12-01  3:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01  8:01                 ` chad
2014-12-01 15:58                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 14:41                     ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 19:17                   ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 10:18             ` Richard Stallman

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