> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:22:03 +0300 > From: Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Linux HTML mail agent > with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support": > > I disagree completely. The embedding control characters are designed > > for, well, embedding. What the standard[1] suggests, but does not > > require, is the use of the first strong directional character in the > > paragraph. The reasons this does not work for email are: > > While the standard *does*, if I remember correctly, specify how the > base direction of each paragraph is determined (using the first > character with a strong direction), no standard really specified > what in a text file is a "paragraph".
I showed earlier a citation from the UBA where it does define that. > I ended up implementing > several different algorithms, but my favorite (and bidi's default) > became splitting up the text file into paragraphs on empty lines. Right, and that's what Emacs 24 does, invoking the high-level protocols clause of the UBA. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
