On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Shachar Shemesh <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a standard way to specify paragraph directionality in emails. It is > done through HTML. There is a standard way in HTML to specify > directionality. Unless a recent proposed change to HTML5 is accepted, the > first directional character of the paragraph is not it. >
I think that you mean that there is a standard way to specify directionality in HTML, so if one needs directionality then he should send HTML emails. There is a way to specify directionality in plain text, too: U+202A and U+202B (LTR- and RTL-Embedding characters). > I know many people on this list don't like this standard, but this extra > email did nothing to change it (not that I, personally, think that changing > it is the right thing to do). > Are you referring to me, in regard to the discussion that we had in which I think that the LTR- and RTL-Embedding characters should be available in the Hebrew keyboard layout? That doesn't mean that I dislike the idea of using HTML. Actually, I don't like HTML mail but not for that reason, rather a personal preference with no root in ideology nor technical reason. > One of the paragraphs of this email was marked as RTL for no reason other > than a whim. Eli will not know which it was, and his reply will not contain > this bit of information. > I wondered what happened to that paragraph! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
