<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Actually, it would be very nice with a emacs-based mail agent that used implicit email direction for composition, but encoded the result in explicit html (based on the resolved directions) when sending the result. Perhaps it may be done through org-mode. How to deal with incoming html mail is a different issue though.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Dov<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Shachar Shemesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz" target="_blank">shachar@shemesh.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 06/24/2012 07:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii
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From: Shachar Shemesh <a href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz" target="_blank"><shachar@shemesh.biz></a>
Cc: linux-il <a href="mailto:linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" target="_blank"><linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il></a>
Thunderbird with the bidiui extension. Set the style to "paragraph", and
the directionality buttons work per paragraph
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<pre>זו, לדוגמא, פסקה עברית בתוך מייל אנגלי.
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<pre>In Emacs, I don't need anything to have this paragraph display
correctly starting at the right margin. It determines the paragraph
direction automatically, because the paragraph starts with a Hebrew
letter.
You should only need directionality buttons when a right-to-left
paragraph starts with a Latin letter (something that happens rather
rarely, but is still an important use case).
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</div><p>You have squashed the email to be text only. As a result, the
paragraph directionality was lost. I'm happy for you that you can
still read this paragraph correctly, but most of the rest of the
world cannot read your quoted mail quite so happily.<br>
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<p style="direction:rtl">If you do not care about the rest of the
world, that's fine, but Dov's question specifically asked about
it, so your answer is, IMHO, off topic.<br>
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<p>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.<br>
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<p>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).<br>
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<p>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.<br>
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<p>Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a href="http://www.lingnu.com" target="_blank">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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