> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:38:18 +0300 > Cc: Asmus Freytag <asm...@ix.netcom.com> > From: Shai Berger via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > > And again -- the point is interoperability. If I cannot trust that > people I communicate with make the same choices I make, plain text > cannot be used.
This conclusion is too extreme. In Real Life™, every reasonable application that supports bidirectional text will have a knob that allows the user to force a particular paragraph direction on a region of text. So if you display some text you received from outside the application, and the display looks juggled, let alone illegible, you force the other paragraph direction, and the problem will usually be solved. At least IME, and I do have experience not only with Emacs.
