> From: Amit Aronovitch <aronovi...@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 12:54:00 +0300
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>
> 
> I suppose this happens because of the username-prompt at the beginning of the 
> lines, which causes the first
> strong letter to be taken from the username (latin - LTR).

Yes.

> To avoid this issues, the messages themselves should be bidi-isolated (as 
> most current IRC clients do). 
> 
> One way to do that is to insert unicode characters in the buffer before and 
> after the message text: insert FSI
> (U+2068) before, and PDI (U+2069). It should have no effect on LTR messages, 
> and solve the issue for bidi
> ones.

I have no objections to such a solution.  As I don't use ERC, I'd
prefer to receive a tested patch that does that.  Can you submit such
a patch?  If it is short enough, we can accept it without any legal
paperwork from your side.

Thanks.

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