Subject: bug#27544: 25.1; Visualization of Unicode bidirectional marks

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:55:22 +0100

Itai Berli <[email-masked]> writes:

> Emacs supports 12 Unicode bidirectional marks (ALM, RLM, LRM, LRE,
> RLE, LRO, RLO, PDF, FSI, LRI, RLI, and PDI), each of which displays as
> a very thin space. This raises two problems.

Perhaps there should be a minor mode to display these characters more
clearly, because they can be pretty confusing to deal with.

What would be the best way to implement such a mode?  Change
`glyphless-char-display' buffer-locally?

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