Thunderbird mailer

Thunderbird mailer

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 11:55:16 IDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 08:28, Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz> wrote:
> On the practical level, many implementations (Windows' edit control
> included) do line breaks and only then BiDi. As a result, all state is
> lost at the end of the line, and the RLE only covers the first line of
> the paragraph. Since most mailers (thunderbird included) do explicit
> line breaking in text mode, this is not even necessarily a violation of
> the standard, as RLEs should be forgotten at the paragraph end character
> (a fact you rely on when you put an RLE at the beginning, but not a PDF
> at the end).
>

Thanks, I will look into this. What other problematic implementations
should I look at? I'll take the time to check the applications and see
what solutions I can propose, but I need to know which applications
are affected.

Thank you Shachar.

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Dotan Cohen

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