From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 24's forward-char vs right-char behavior Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:17:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83liliivyo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <379c8837-79c2-4692-8103-0bfa473f221e@wp13g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> <6251ec09-a82e-4843-9b52-1074dc20eaf1@a8g2000pbe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335439093 4167 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2012 11:18:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:18:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 13:18:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SNMiA-0005DO-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:18:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNMiA-0002A5-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:18:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37496) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNMi0-00029l-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNMhy-0002DQ-J2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:44249) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNMhy-0002DG-B2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:17:58 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M3300C003BTPZ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:17:01 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.249.186]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M3300CEX3CDLM80@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:17:01 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84642 Archived-At: > From: Joost Kremers > Date: 25 Apr 2012 12:48:28 GMT > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> the text will be right-aligned, as it's an all-arabic paragraph. > > > > More accurately, a paragraph is considered right-to-left if its first > > strong directional character (after skipping punctuation, digits, > > etc.) is R2L. > > yes, i found that out the hard way (started a paragraph that was meant to > be r2l with an english word... ;-) You can still have such a paragraph displayed right-to-left if you insert the RLM (U+200F) character at its beginning.