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Re: Bidirectional text and URLs
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Bidirectional text and URLs |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:30:03 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:34:46 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> The first one sounds pretty complicated. I need to think about its
>> feasibility.
>
> A simple (as in "KISS") strategy that should always work is to copy
> the entire physical line around the region. The disadvantage is, of
> course, that it could be very long in some rare cases. Optimizing
> that would probably require replacing runs of certain types of
> characters with a single representative character of the same type,
> and keeping all the directional controls.
>
> We could also replace strong directional characters L/R/AL with the
> corresponding mark (LRM/RLM/ALM), which are displayed as (thin)
> spaces, and so will be almost invisible, keeping an illusion of
> copying just the region of text and nothing else.
>
> Is this good enough?
Wouldn't it just be enough to turn off bidi-display-reordering in the
minibuffer when inputting/displaying the URL?
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, (continued)
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/01
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/01
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/01
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/01
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/01
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/02
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/02
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/01
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/01
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/01
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/01
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/02
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/02
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/02
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/03
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/03
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/04
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/05
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/05
- Re: Bidirectional text and URLs, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/05