From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bidirectional text and URLs
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:18:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1XvO3N-0005t3-NI@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fvd0afd5.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:16:06 +0200)
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> The issue here is that bidirectional display features are being
> (ab)used to trick humans into thinking they will follow a link to some
> place, while in fact the link leads to a very different place. This
> problem would not have existed without humans reading the URLs, and
> without the discrepancy between what those humans perceive visually
> and the actual URL as seen by the program which interprets it.
That is true. These magic characters have the same effect in URLs
as everywhere else, because Emacs display does not distinguish.
But URLs are not the places where these magic characters are useful
and meant to be used.
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Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-28 2:51 Bidirectional text and URLs Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-28 3:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-28 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 6:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-29 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 17:05 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-29 17:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 17:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 17:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 18:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 9:38 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-30 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 18:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 19:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-29 19:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 19:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-29 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 16:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 17:29 ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-30 17:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 18:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 19:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 19:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 20:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 19:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 21:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 21:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 16:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 17:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 18:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-02 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 16:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 20:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-01 20:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 14:45 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 14:45 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 8:39 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-03 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-04 9:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-05 11:16 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-05 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-05 22:43 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-05 23:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-06 12:06 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-06 12:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-05 22:43 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-05 23:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-06 12:06 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 14:44 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 8:39 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-30 9:38 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-30 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 10:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 8:38 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-03 11:56 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-12-03 17:12 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-03 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-04 14:30 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-04 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-04 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-04 20:25 ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-02 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 17:13 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-03 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-05 22:44 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-05 23:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-07 9:20 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-07 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 0:26 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-08 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 17:13 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-03 17:13 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-29 17:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-30 13:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-30 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 10:18 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 18:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-01 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 20:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-01 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-02 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 8:39 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-28 11:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 13:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-28 19:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 21:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-29 0:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 22:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-28 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 6:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-28 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 17:09 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-28 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 17:03 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-29 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 9:37 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-30 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 10:18 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2014-12-01 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 19:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-29 17:04 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-29 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 9:38 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-30 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 23:39 ` chad
2014-12-01 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 8:01 ` chad
2014-12-01 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 14:41 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 19:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-01 10:18 ` Richard Stallman
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