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, 05 Dec 2014 06:16:22 -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> <83zjb9an0q.fsf@gnu.org> <831toka82r.fsf@gnu.org> <83oaro8km7.fsf@gnu.org> <83k32b6u5l.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9xf6rzs.fsf@gnu.org> <83wq6a5c1q.fsf@gnu.org> <83lhmo63a9.fsf@gnu.org> <83vblr4uqi.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 1417778212 1807 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 11:16:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 11:16:52 +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 Fri Dec 05 12:16:47 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 1XwqsQ-0003Th-P9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:16:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49818 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwqsQ-00034Q-Bl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:16:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwqs5-000309-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwqs4-00075K-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:16:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwqs4-00075A-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:16:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwqs2-0001ij-GZ; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:16:22 -0500 In-reply-to: <83vblr4uqi.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:41:57 +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:178902 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. ]]] Thanks. This construct will be useful for warning users about strange bidi in URLs. Do we need any new features to make it possible to show how the strange bidi text would really be interpreted? I think the feature you proposed, which would examine how text is actually displayed and represent that with text that is straightfoward, may be useful too. -- 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.