Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char

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Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?

From:	PJ Weisberg
Subject:	Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?
Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:29:04 -0700

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 08:35:32 -0700
>> From: PJ Weisberg <address@hidden>
>> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
>>
>> On Thursday, June 2, 2011, Andy Moreton <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > the current position, depending on the bidirectional context.
>>
>> A user familiar with only left-to-right languages might not know what
>> "bidirectional context" refers to here.
>
> Right.  Suggestions are welcome for how to say that less vaguely, but
> without spilling the entire UAX#9 into the doc string ;-)

Something like "...depending on the natural direction of text around
the cursor.  See UAX#9 regarding the display of text in languages that
read right-to-left."

-PJ

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