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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Displaying LRM and RLM
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:32:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uiqpfdquv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081220104506.GV11238@rzlab.ucr.edu>

> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:45:06 -0800
> From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
> 
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > What should Emacs 23 display for these two characters (U+200E and
> > U+200F)?  On MS-Windows they are displayed as blanks; I need to type
> > "C-u C-x =" to see that these are not blanks.  Is that right?
> 
> These are the LRM and RLM; they're zero-width symbols that change the
> direction of text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-to-right_mark
> et al.

Well, I know very well what they are; see the Subject.  I was asking
how we should display them.  I think displaying them as blanks without
any visual cue to the fact that they aren't is misleading.  E.g., NBSP
is displayed specially, for that very reason.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-20 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-20 10:31 Displaying LRM and RLM Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-20 10:45 ` Don Armstrong
2008-12-20 11:32   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-12-20 13:05     ` Jason Rumney
2008-12-20 13:16       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-20 13:36         ` Jason Rumney
2008-12-20 14:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-20 14:57             ` Jason Rumney
2008-12-21  2:24     ` Stefan Monnier

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