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: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:18:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zjbbdt0u.fsf@igel.home> <833892aq3m.fsf@gnu.org> <83egskaf6c.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417429116 30347 80.91.229.3 (1 Dec 2014 10:18:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 10:18:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 01 11:18:31 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 1XvO3p-0003hT-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:18:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvO3p-00067n-82 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:18:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvO3P-00067H-R1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvO3O-0002VL-Tp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:18:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50430) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvO3O-0002VH-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:18:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvO3M-0005sV-EN; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:18:00 -0500 In-reply-to: <83egskaf6c.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:20:11 +0200) 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:178572 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. ]]] > > > We need to have a good instrumental definition of "bidi strangeness" > > > for that. > > > > I suggest the definition: whatever would cause the displayed order of > > characters to be perhaps misleading if the text is interpreted as a > > URL or anything else with programatic significance. > I'm sorry, but this is not instrumental: it doesn't specify what > "misleading" means. We need a detailed spec for that. Yes, my proposal is a first step that needs to be fleshed out. -- 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.