bug#27526: 25.1; Nonconformance to Unicode bidirectionality algorithm due to paragraph separator

[Itai Berli <itai.berli@gmail.com>]

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Is there any progress with allowing the user to customize the
end-of-paragraph mark to be the OS paragraph separator character?

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Itai Berli <itai.berli@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 20:01:25 +0300
> >
> > You did, but it would be much nicer for a noob like me to be able to
> simply type in my .emacs file something
> > like: (bidi.markers.visible false), or maybe even
> >
> > (bidi.markers.ALM null)
> > (bidi.markers.RLM ⊲)
> > (bidi.markers.LRM ⊳)
>
> Sorry, I don't see why the exact way how to customize this is so
> important.  glyphless-char-display-control is a user-level
> customizable variable, not some obscure feature that requires Lisp
> programming to tailor it to your needs.
>
> > Isn't the Bidi feature important and complicated enough to merit its own
> tailored set of customizable
> > parameters?
>
> It does have its private customizations, but this one isn't one of
> them, I don't see why it should be.  The characters of the Cf general
> category are quite a few, and Emacs handled them all the same, because
> they all have the same nature.
>

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