Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz> 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!


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