> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:21:25 +0300 > From: Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> > Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > So we have established that sections of text separated by newlines are > paragraphs. Let us return to the issue. In a plain text file, as > defined above, there does exist a method by which the author of the > file may specify that a paragraph is to be RTL. Therefore there is no > need for HTML to send RTL emails, nor is there technical need for the > email client to guess. However, I agree that there is practical need > for the email client to guess as many users may not mark RTL > paragraphs as RTL (be them plain text or HTML). > > Have I forgotten anything?
Yes, a few things: . Base paragraph direction in plain text is determined by the first strong directional character in the paragraph. . A UBA-compliant MUA will determine the base direction in plain text as the UBA specifies, and will display an RTL paragraph starting at the right margin of the window. . A UBA-compliant MUA _may_ decide that a paragraph is defined by something other than a single newline etc. (e.g., Emacs uses the high level protocols clause to define a paragraph as text delimited by empty lines, i.e. two newlines in a row). But whatever the definition of a paragraph, once a paragraph _is_ detected that starts with a string RTL character, a compliant MUA will display it as RTL. . You can start the paragraph with the RLM or LRM character to force its base direction be RTL resp. LTR, because these two have streong directionality. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
