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

[Stefan Monnier]

> More importantly, I don't think it's a good idea to change the bidi
> properties in such a radical way (or at all), because we don't have
> the resources to investigate all of the consequences.  For example, <
> is a mirrored character, so when it's between to R2L characters, it
> displays as > and vice versa.  Yes, I know: you'll suggest to change
> the mirroring table as well, but how far should we go? do we really
> want to create our own UBA?

Furthermore, this buffer-local table should only be used for actual
code, but the default global table should probably be used within
comments and strings.


        Stefan