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#11700
24.1.50; Bad interaction between BiDi and org-tables
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Reported by: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld <at> gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:30:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 24.1.50
Done: Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:10:46 +0300
>> From: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 11700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> [stuff deleted]
>> I tried inserting tabs into the buffer before the vertical bars, but
>> after reordering it still didn't come out right.
>
> ??? What exactly did you try? You need to have a TAB before and after
> each '|' that's between the cells (the outer ones do not need a TAB).
> Like this (you should see this correctly in Emacs 24.1; move cursor
> with C-f to see the logical order):
>
> | אבגד | הוזחטי |
>
> Isn't this what you wanted?
Yes. Great! This is indeed what I wanted. My mistake was that I tried
it with a tab character before OR after the vertical bar. This
solution should be really simple to implement in org-mode as it means
that instead of joining the table columns with "<space><vbar><space>"
as is currently done, you just need to use "<tab><vbar><tab>" as well
as setting the tab width to 1.
But I just wonder, is there any other character (preferably white
space character) with the same end-of-segment-boundary properties as
tab, in case tab is used for something else in org-mode? Or is it
possible to take an arbitrary character, e.g. U+E0020, and bless it
with end-of-segment boundary properties and then use that in the
org-mode buffer?
As a side note, I really like the idea of end of segment separator,
and I wasn't aware of it when I wrote fribidi a long time ago. I
wonder if the semantics of the emacs segment separator follows the
Unicode Bidi Algorithm?
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