Re: Buffer names with R2L characters

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:06:29 +0300
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > But this sounds kludgey, and of course sooner or later the
> > "2>FEDCBA>" thingy will show somewhere, e.g. if someone coughs
> > up their own mode-line-format and use buffer-name directly, or
> > whatever.
> 
> Perhaps you could make buffer-name return a string with text
> properties that let it display in the preferable way.  I don't
> know whether the bidi code supports such properties.

That's what James was talking about.  As I replied, there are no such
text properties in Emacs yet, and implementing them will not be
trivial, so it won't be in Emacs 24.1.