From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bidirectional text and URLs Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:09:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417194615 30886 80.91.229.3 (28 Nov 2014 17:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 28 18:10:09 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 1XuP3Y-00007h-Pd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:10:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuP3Y-00007v-8m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:10:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46644) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuP3J-00007q-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:09:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuP3I-0006di-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:09:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42051) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuP3H-0006db-Vf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:09:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuP3H-0000f1-32; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:09:51 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:51:14 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:178430 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] There is no legitimate need for such URLs to "work." Perhaps the Emacs programs that follow a URL should give an error if there is any special RTL flag character in the URL. Or anything else strange or dangerous. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.