On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > 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 whetherMoz 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.
Or place an LRM after the ++ . Adding embedding chars into text can have nasti effects if one of the chars accidentally gets removed. > > (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.) But you'll have to have different *text* editors agreeing on how to add those characters. Otherwise each editor will add it in a different way, and there will be a mess. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= 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]
