Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:26:18 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:30:56 +0200
> >> 
> >> Emacs should not become unpredictable in an ASCII-only environment
> >> with ASCII-only data sources.  Let alone in a latin-1 environment.
> >
> > Dealing with email has long ago stopped being an ASCII-only or
> > Latin-1-only environment.
> 
> What about "ASCII-only data sources" did you not understand?

What part of "there are no ASCII-only data sources" did you not
understand?

> When I am replying to an ASCII-only mail, I don't want to have Unicode
> direction marks pasted into its subject line or wherever else.

No one said anything about replying.  Stay on the subject, if you want
a serious discussion.

> [...] English-only mailing list without any foreign-language spam or
> senders [...]

Where do you find such things nowadays?  They don't exist.

> limit my audience to multibyte-capable readers

What are multibyte-uncapable readers in use nowadays?  Wake up, it's
2011 out there!  The dumb MS Outlook supports directional marks for
quite some time.