Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: James Cloos <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 
> <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:11:56 -0400
> 
> > The same thing applies to the From Name.
> > First LAST in the above example.
> 
> As I wrote earlier, gnus' summary buffer will become r2l with its
> default summary line format whenever the first article's sender's
> name is r2l and there are no marks, since everything before the
> sender's name is neutral.
> 
> I did encounter an example shortly after I posted that.
> 
> Setting bidi-paragraph-direction to left-to-right for the Summary
> buffer was indeed enough to render the buffer correctly.

As Mohsen points out, this is not the issue at hand.  The issue at
hand is rendering individual summary lines that include portions, like
Subject and names of addressees, in R2L scripts.

> I don't know whether any gnus users customize their Group and Summary
> buffers to a non-English locale and would prefer a r2l buffer

IMO, such customizations don't make sense until the Emacs UI,
including the menu bar, the tool bar, and the mode line, can be
customized to display right to left.  There's a TODO item about that,
but it probably won't happen for Emacs 24.1.