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Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:22:41 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > When you type "C-x C-s", Emacs clearly shows the characters that
>> > cannot be encoded as Latin-1.
>> As you said yourself, users should not need to know about the details of
>> how bidi works. So we can't assume that they know what left-to-right
>> marks are, so they can't know whether the characters that Emacs is
>> complaining about are important to keep.
> I sometimes get prompted to choose a different encoding when I send
> email responses to mail that looked pure ASCII. I'm presented with a
> buffer that points to a character that doesn't look "foreign" at all.
> If I care to investigate, it turns out that character was an em-dash
> or fancy quotes, that just looked "normal" due to the font. Am I
> confused? No. I just select the encoding, usually the one suggested
> by Emacs as the default, and that's it.
> IOW, I see no issue here. But since people make a lot of fuss out of
> it, feel free to invent all kinds of weird functions to save them from
> themselves.
And AFAIK that only affects Rmail users. Other MUAs will just happily
choose another encoding (typically utf-8) for you.
Stefan
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, (continued)
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/10
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/10
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/10
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/10
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Mohsen BANAN, 2011/08/10
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/10
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/10
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/09
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, David Kastrup, 2011/08/10
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/08/17
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/08/17
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/08/17
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/18
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/18
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/08/06
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, David Kastrup, 2011/08/06
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/06
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Mohsen BANAN, 2011/08/06
Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/02