Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Tue Jun 26 06:05:01 IDT 2012


> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:12:01 +0300
> From: Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>
> CC: linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> 
> On 06/25/2012 09:56 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Outlook employs a higher level protocol. It is "all paragraphs are LTR,
> >> unless the user presses CTRL+RIGHT SHIFT, in which case all paragraphs
> >> are RTL". It is a valid, standard conforming protocol
> > Again, I think such an interpretation is against the spirit of HL1.
> I'm not sure what "the spirit" of a standard is. Standards are
> specifications. You are either conforming, or non conforming. This is by
> design, and part of the reason that standards are formed by large
> committees. There is an attempt to prevent threads like this one.
> 
> More to the point, I think you are reading HL1 wrong.

Well, can we at least agree that rendering Hebrew paragraphs as RTL
makes them display better than what one sees in Outlook?



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