From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bidi-string-strip-control-characters
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:51:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmompcy9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgnqzfzg.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:36:19 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:36:19 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > How about if, instead of filtering out these controls, the function
> > would replace them with their printed representation, like \u200e?
> > Removing them might leave the user wondering what and where is wrong
> > with the original text.
>
> Yes, that's even better. Or even with the \N{NAME} syntax, which would
> spell things out even clearer?
The problem with \N{NAME} is that it's very long, which makes the text
inconvenient to display and read. So I tend to favor the \uNNNN
alternative.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-20 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-20 9:23 bidi-string-strip-control-characters Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-20 9:29 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-20 10:14 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-20 12:47 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-20 11:04 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Po Lu
2022-01-20 11:19 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-20 11:21 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Po Lu
2022-01-20 11:23 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-20 11:33 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-20 12:46 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-20 13:02 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-20 13:36 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-20 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-01-21 9:18 ` bidi-string-strip-control-characters Lars Ingebrigtsen
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