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Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.9
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.9 |
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Date: |
Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:00:46 -0400 (EDT) |
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Axel Beckert" <address@hidden>
| To: address@hidden
| Cc: address@hidden
| Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 7:12:27 AM
| Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.9
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| Hi Thomas,
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| On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 01:12:32AM +0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
| > * restore fix to filter out left-to-right marks which was broken in
| > refactoring in 2.8.9dev.2, and also filter out right-to-left
| > marks
| > (Debian #808949) -TD
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| Thanks for taking care of bugs reported in Debian!
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| Nevertheless, in this case, the fix might have broken something else
| as it probably caused the following regression reported in Debian
| today: https://bugs.debian.org/822958
yes/no: the report noted breakage in an earlier fix to remove the feature:
ignore LEFT-TO-RIGHT-MARK (U+200E) in HTML files (Debian #408835) -TD
If someone sees it "working" in some version, that is accidental (i.e., a bug),
since
neither ncurses nor slang actually support bidi in the sense that they know
what's on the screen between the (zero-width!) markers.
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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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