Re: [emacs-bidi] status? news?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> > Whoever wants the text to be displayed correctly will use the Unicode 
> > control characters judiciously, because that's the only way to make sure 
> > the text displays as the writer meant it.
> 
> That has it's own problems you know. Few applications support expliciit
> bidi marks, and it seems many programs will not ever support them, because
> of their behaviour that affects next text lines.

Could you please elaborate on these problems with next text lines?

> Word and Internet Explorer use the same engine for bidi reordering. And
> we're not talking only about plain text. HTML also relies on Unicode bidi.

HTML has additional bidi directives, which I imagine are easier to 
support than the Unicode controls.  So HTML is probably in less trouble 
than plain text.