Re: Displaying LRM and RLM

[Don Armstrong]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> What should Emacs 23 display for these two characters (U+200E and
> U+200F)?  On MS-Windows they are displayed as blanks; I need to type
> "C-u C-x =" to see that these are not blanks.  Is that right?

These are the LRM and RLM; they're zero-width symbols that change the
direction of text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-to-right_mark
et al.


Don Armstrong

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