Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:02:48 +0300
> From: Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>
> Cc: linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> 
> >  Therefore there is no
> > need for HTML to send RTL emails, nor is there technical need for the
> > email client to guess.
> Except there so no standard, de-facto or otherwise (as far as I'm aware)
> on whether HL1 is being applied be email clients for plain text emails,

Yes, there is such a standard: the UBA.  It explicitly applies to
plain text, in the absence of any high-level protocols.  And there can
be no high-level protocols that disable determination of base
direction of a paragraph altogether.

> and the HTML standard is that HL1 is being applied, and paragraph
> direction must be set.

True.