Re: How to handle mixed LtR and RtL scripts in tabulated lists

[Joost Kremers]

On Tue, Sep 15 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This is actually covered in the ELisp manual, in the node
> "Bidirectional Display".  It suggests several different ways of
> handling this, I'm quite sure one of them will satisfy your 
> needs
> without being too much of a burden.

Thanks, Eli, that's indeed the place I needed to look. I thought 
`truncate-width-to-string` was part of the problem, so I didn't 
think to look elsewhere in the manual...

I'm now passing the strings that make up the individual cells to 
`bidi-string-mark-left-to-right`, which solves the problem, at 
least for the test case that I have.

> > Currently, I'm using the built-in function 
> > `truncate-string-to-width` to create the rows of the tabulated 
> > list.
>
> Not sure this part is related.  If there are bidi aspects that
> interfere with this truncation, please tell the details.

I suspect you are right. If I do run into additional issues, I'll 
post here, but for the moment, it looks alright.

Thanks again,

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