On Sun, 2 Jul 2017, omd wrote:
Oh, and I'd say Unicode basically doesn't matter, only visual appearance in common email clients. The following text: { I do X. I do Y. } uses the Unicode control characters LRO, RLO, and PDF; a pseudo-HTML equivalent would be: { <rtl><ltr>I do X.</ltr> <ltr>I do Y.</ltr></rtl> } In other words, two LTR blocks within a RTL block. Semantically, it's quite clear that "I do X." comes first, but visually the text should look identical to { I do Y. I do X. }
FWIW, in my setup (alpine via tmux (optional, same without) and putty), i see X first.
Greetings, Ørjan.