From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:36:19 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87pqkdn7zg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <877h6y7chn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <831ux6cv5o.fsf@gnu.org> <87d3gpku3o.fsf@gnus.org> <834o1ypa2b.fsf@gnu.org> <87aabnn3mz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83mxfnwwyd.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipqbzogt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83liv7wqhe.fsf@gnu.org> <87liv75xsh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83k4arvx05.fsf@gnu.org> <87bow116je.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83wrepyq3r.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjpar2l2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83aabizh94.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcu6b4rp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8339haynk9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312954609 25799 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2011 05:36:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:36:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 10 07:36:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qr1TA-0001OM-Pj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:36:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52513 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qr1TA-0005GS-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qr1T3-0005FE-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qr1Sz-0001wh-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51657) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qr1Sz-0001wd-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qr1Sy-0001Kx-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:36:32 +0200 Original-Received: from p508edfc9.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.223.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:36:32 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508edfc9.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:36:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508edfc9.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NSEuPZFOgA08/SiZE953Z1qlbLo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:143091 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > I sometimes get prompted to choose a different encoding when I send > email responses to mail that looked pure ASCII. I'm presented with a > buffer that points to a character that doesn't look "foreign" at all. > If I care to investigate, it turns out that character was an em-dash > or fancy quotes, that just looked "normal" due to the font. Am I > confused? No. I just select the encoding, usually the one suggested > by Emacs as the default, and that's it. > > IOW, I see no issue here. But since people make a lot of fuss out of > it, feel free to invent all kinds of weird functions to save them from > themselves. The issue is not saving them from themselves, but saving them and anybody they might be sharing messages and data with from Emacs. -- David Kastrup