LRE and PDF are generally only useful at the beginning of text lines.
RLM and LRM are useful in all places in a text line.

I use them often, I've even added them to my keyboard:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/674997/new-keyboard-layout-variant-not-detected-after-reboot

On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 11:41, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 09:53:36AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> >
> >     On 09/06/2022 19:10, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > >       If anybody doesn't yet use Visidata, then give it a look. It is
> > > ostensibly a tool for looking at tabular data, like CSV files, but it
> > > works with so many formats that I find myself using it very often as
> > > it is easier to use than purpose-built tools. I even use it to poke
> > > around the filesystem sometimes.
> > >
> > > https://www.visidata.org/
> > >
> > > Visidata unfortunately places consecutive RTL cells in reverse order.
> > > Here's the bug that I filed:
> > > https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/1392
> > >
> > > It would be great if someone could add something constructive to that
> > > bug report. I personally have many CSV files and other files with
> > > Hebrew and Arabic text. Thanks.
> >
> >
> > If you can find the part of the code that outpus, simply inserting
> > an "LRM" character between cells should, at the very least, greatly
> > improve things.
>
> Isn't that what LRE and PDF are for?
>
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