Re: Displaying LRM and RLM

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:45:06 -0800
> From: Don Armstrong <address@hidden>
> 
> 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.

Well, I know very well what they are; see the Subject.  I was asking
how we should display them.  I think displaying them as blanks without
any visual cue to the fact that they aren't is misleading.  E.g., NBSP
is displayed specially, for that very reason.