Re: bidi-string-strip-control-characters

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:36:19 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > How about if, instead of filtering out these controls, the function
> > would replace them with their printed representation, like \u200e?
> > Removing them might leave the user wondering what and where is wrong
> > with the original text.
> 
> Yes, that's even better.  Or even with the \N{NAME} syntax, which would
> spell things out even clearer?

The problem with \N{NAME} is that it's very long, which makes the text
inconvenient to display and read.  So I tend to favor the \uNNNN
alternative.