GNU bug report logs - #11700
24.1.50; Bad interaction between BiDi and org-tables

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Packages: org-mode, emacs;

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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Message #50 received at 11700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr
Cc: dov.grobgeld <at> gmail.com, 11700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11700: 24.1.50; Bad interaction between BiDi and org-tables
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 15:48:32 +0200

> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 15:38:11 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: dov.grobgeld <at> gmail.com, 11700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I found both methods doing well, so I'm going to show both, and let
> you decide which one is better.

On second thought, I think Method 2 is better, because it does exactly
what segment separators were invented for: to separate cells in
tables.  By contrast, the bidi formatting control characters are for
controlling the display order in general text, not necessarily in
tables.
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