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 12:13:06 -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> <831toi6r4w.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 1417626906 23841 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2014 17:15:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:15:06 +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 18:15:01 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 1XwDVz-0005IX-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:14:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwDVz-0001Fz-5Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:14:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36111) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwDUF-0007AW-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:13:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwDUB-00005x-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:13:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwDUB-00005s-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:13:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwDUA-000247-GS; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:13:06 -0500 In-reply-to: <831toi6r4w.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:52:15 +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:178734 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. ]]] > > It is easy to make an option turn off bidi processing. > > All it has to do is make all characters seem LTR. > That doesn't disable reordering, it just makes the results > indistinguishable. Perhaps I don't understand what you want to do > with this option. I think we are miscommunicating. If every character is considered to imply left-to-right, the ordering will be what it was before we had bidi support. -- 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.