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

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
>> address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:40:45 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Translated into Emacs-speak, this means we need a variable that, when
>> > bound to some special value, instructs the reordering engine to treat
>> > certain characters as segment separators.
>> 
>> They already exist: comment-start and comment-end, for example.
>
> These are strings, not characters.  I meant single characters.

You can't have that.  The field separators are multi-character strings.

Andreas.

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