Re: Bidirectional text and URLs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Another possible interface would be
  > > 'buffer-substring-preserve-bidi-context'.
  > > It would copy a specified part of the buffer, but prefix and suffix it
  > > with whatever is necessary to cause that part to display the same,
  > > bidi-wise, as it did in its original buffer.

  > How is this different (you say "another possible interface")?

First I proposed an interface that would return a representation of
the bidi context that affects a certain region.  This representation
would NOT include the text of that region.  It would only represent
the context _around_ that region, not the contents of that region.

Along with that I proposed a function to convert that representation
of context into magic bidi characters that will reproduce that context.

The second proposed interface would copy the text of a region, while
adding to it something to reproduce the bidi effect of its context.

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