GNU bug report logs - #27544
25.1; Visualization of Unicode bidirectional marks

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Itai Berli <itai.berli <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 10:00:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.1

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 27544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Itai Berli <itai.berli <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 27544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27544: 25.1; Visualization of Unicode bidirectional marks
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:55:22 +0100

Itai Berli <itai.berli <at> gmail.com> 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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