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: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:38:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a93cngwv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837fyfml31.fsf@gnu.org> <874mtio7wh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83r3wml8kq.fsf@gnu.org> <83a938aeuc.fsf@gnu.org> <838uir8huv.fsf@gnu.org> <83388y6rb3.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 1417595987 11722 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2014 08:39:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 08:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 09:39:42 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 1Xw5TK-000319-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:39:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw5TJ-0002bW-OX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:39:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34553) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw5Sh-0001hH-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw5Sg-0001np-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48562) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw5Sg-0001nl-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw5Sd-0000i3-FT; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:38:59 -0500 In-reply-to: <83388y6rb3.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:48:32 +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:178717 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. ]]] > > I am not saying that RTL per se is dangerous. I'm suggesting we > > should warn users very visibly about RTL text it if they don't > > normally use it and are perhaps not expecting it. > We don't know if this particular user normally uses RTL. We could > introduce an option through which users could tell us that they want > such warnings. Exactly. If we introduce a variable to set if you use RTL text, we will know who normally uses RTL text. But in general, things that are not dangerous don't > warrant a warning. RTL is dangerous in SOME CASES, and that's enough reason to warn about it. -- 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.