From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bidirectional text and URLs Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:26:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83vblzklmu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k32f4loc.fsf@lifelogs.com> <874mtj3y1k.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417213598 6433 80.91.229.3 (28 Nov 2014 22:26:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:26:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 28 23:26:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1XuTzh-0002jV-4w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:26:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuTzg-0008Nk-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:26:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60181) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuTzL-0008Nb-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:26:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuTzF-0006Hk-K4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:26:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:55068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuTzF-0006Hd-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:26:01 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFR00200RXEPJ00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:21:35 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFR00PNISRY0Q40@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:21:35 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <874mtj3y1k.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178441 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:49:59 -0500 > > I'm not sure about the bidi markers, Eli can discuss that side. I'll > try to get the confusables in there and maybe write general code that > bidi markers and others can hook into. I cannot say I can follow that. Those "bidi markers" are just characters, so how can they hook into something? > EZ> For that matter, what functionality are we talking about? > > The uni-confusables package from the GNU ELPA and glue code to let SHR > and EWW know that a URL includes such characters. Once again, these characters are not confusables. Their use around the URL is. So highlighting them wherever we see them is not necessarily the best way. > EZ> We should first decide what we want to do with these cases, and only > EZ> then discuss whether that functionality belongs to the core. > > I think Lars' suggestion is decent, see above. What question? And what does decency have to do with this?