On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 10:40:17PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > What about text messages?
There is no standard for setting a text/plain message's directionality. I think the RFC says its to be determined from the first strong character or something like that. (We can actually use RLE and LRE to keep the intention of the text, but we cannot force the alignment.) > Is it possible to force directionality by beggning a document/paragraph > with RLM/LRM ? Is it wise? Why won't you check whether Moz follows the "first strong character" standard for plaintext mail? And whether it considers RLE to be a strong RTL character? > Is it possible to distribute a "bidi mozilla" patch that will include them > all for the purpose of testing? My addition is not a patch. It can be perfectly well packed into an XPI once I learn how to do it :) > > One feature I'd like to add myself, or have one of you add, is to allow > > making a whole selection Left-to-right or Right-to-left. > > What for? For visual Hebrew? No, for cases where you want to override the directionality for a piece of selected text, e.g. in RLE text: Visual C++ ZE MEHADER. would be written as: REDAHEM EZ ++Visual C or something of that sort. In that case, I'd select the whole "Visual C++" piece and LRE it. (If I'd be allowed to dream on, I'd do something like what Microsoft's RichText editor does and insert the LRE automatically, judging from the position my cursor was in while I typed "++" -- which in turn depends on the keyboard language being LTR or RTL. I'll explain it further if you want.) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
