Re: bidi-string-strip-control-characters

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Isn't that bidi-string-mark-left-to-right?
>
> Yes, but bidi-string-mark-left-to-right will not help with overrides,
> it only helps with "normal" RTL characters.  We do need a new API,
> just not one that removes the bidi controls entirely, that is too
> drastic.  What we do in descr-text.el provides a full solution, we
> just need to factor it out into a separate function.

Right -- sounds like a useful function to have in general, too.

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