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.
next prev parent 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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