Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-26 Thread Herouth Maoz


On 26/02/2008, at 19:40, Dotan Cohen wrote:


Where is the lyx keyboard? Pressing SHIFT-minus for me gives me
underscore. Pressing SHIFT-numpadMinus gives me minus. I looked in
Kcontrol for lyx keyboard but do not see it.



In the control panel, under "keyboard layout" which is under the  
accessibility (at least in my Mandriva it is), you can select  
"Israel" as a keyboard layout. When you do so, you have a selection  
of variant in a drop down menu below the "active layouts" list. You  
select "lyx" from it. It also gives you Nikud in a very easy-to- 
remember layout (most Nikud is accessible as shift + its first letter  
- like shin for shwa and het for hirik).


Herouth

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 26/02/2008, Herouth Maoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >>  >
>  >>  > איך מקלידים את המקף העליון? אני משתמש בKDE, אם זה חשוב.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Using the lyx keyboard that comes in KDE, click shift-minus. I use it
>  >>  all the time in any application that supports unicode.
>  >>
>  >>  Herouth
>  >>
>  >
>  > No way with the keyboard? I have a hard time using the mouse. Broken 
> thumb.]
>
>
> Maybe my use of the word "click" misled you. Should have said "press".
>

Where is the lyx keyboard? Pressing SHIFT-minus for me gives me
underscore. Pressing SHIFT-numpadMinus gives me minus. I looked in
Kcontrol for lyx keyboard but do not see it.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?


Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-26 Thread Herouth Maoz

Quoting Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On 26/02/2008, Herouth Maoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Quoting Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

 > On 25/02/2008, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 >>   - בעקבות אזכור של מישהו (איני זוכר מי) גיליתי שהתו מקף עליון '־' מוגדר
 >> ביוניקוד כתו עם ישור ימין-שמאל. זה פותר המון בעיות של צירופים קשים
 >> כגון "ה־9 לחודש" (נסו לכתוב זאת עם מקף רגיל).
 >> הבעיה -- התן הזה חסר בגופנים נפוצים ב־Windows (כמו Arial וכו'),
 >> לכן צמצמתי קצת את השימוש בו. האם במערכות שלכם רואים אותו?
 >>
 >
 > איך מקלידים את המקף העליון? אני משתמש בKDE, אם זה חשוב.


Using the lyx keyboard that comes in KDE, click shift-minus. I use it
 all the time in any application that supports unicode.

 Herouth



No way with the keyboard? I have a hard time using the mouse. Broken thumb]


Maybe my use of the word "click" misled you. Should have said "press".

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 26/02/2008, Herouth Maoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>  > On 25/02/2008, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >>   - בעקבות אזכור של מישהו (איני זוכר מי) גיליתי שהתו מקף עליון '־' מוגדר
>  >> ביוניקוד כתו עם ישור ימין-שמאל. זה פותר המון בעיות של צירופים קשים
>  >> כגון "ה־9 לחודש" (נסו לכתוב זאת עם מקף רגיל).
>  >> הבעיה -- התן הזה חסר בגופנים נפוצים ב־Windows (כמו Arial וכו'),
>  >> לכן צמצמתי קצת את השימוש בו. האם במערכות שלכם רואים אותו?
>  >>
>  >
>  > איך מקלידים את המקף העליון? אני משתמש בKDE, אם זה חשוב.
>
>
> Using the lyx keyboard that comes in KDE, click shift-minus. I use it
>  all the time in any application that supports unicode.
>
>  Herouth
>

No way with the keyboard? I have a hard time using the mouse. Broken thumb.]

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?


Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-26 Thread Herouth Maoz

Quoting Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On 25/02/2008, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  - בעקבות אזכור של מישהו (איני זוכר מי) גיליתי שהתו מקף עליון '־' מוגדר
ביוניקוד כתו עם ישור ימין-שמאל. זה פותר המון בעיות של צירופים קשים
כגון "ה־9 לחודש" (נסו לכתוב זאת עם מקף רגיל).
הבעיה -- התן הזה חסר בגופנים נפוצים ב־Windows (כמו Arial וכו'),
לכן צמצמתי קצת את השימוש בו. האם במערכות שלכם רואים אותו?



איך מקלידים את המקף העליון? אני משתמש בKDE, אם זה חשוב.


Using the lyx keyboard that comes in KDE, click shift-minus. I use it  
all the time in any application that supports unicode.


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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 25/02/2008, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   - בעקבות אזכור של מישהו (איני זוכר מי) גיליתי שהתו מקף עליון '־' מוגדר
> ביוניקוד כתו עם ישור ימין-שמאל. זה פותר המון בעיות של צירופים קשים
> כגון "ה־9 לחודש" (נסו לכתוב זאת עם מקף רגיל).
> הבעיה -- התן הזה חסר בגופנים נפוצים ב־Windows (כמו Arial וכו'),
> לכן צמצמתי קצת את השימוש בו. האם במערכות שלכם רואים אותו?
>

איך מקלידים את המקף העליון? אני משתמש בKDE, אם זה חשוב.

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?


Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 25/02/2008, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> כפי שהיא צריכה להיות, מימין לשמאל וצמודה לימין.
>  אני משתמש ב־kmail גרסה 3.5.8 ב-Fedora.
>  In applications that use correct bidi algorithm the RTL is a given.
>  However the unicode bidi alrgorithm does not specify (AFAIR) the
>  *initial* paragraph direction.
>
>  So if there is no explicit information (e.g: RLE), the application
>  should have a reasonable heuristic. The most common such rule
>  is to use the first character of the paragraph as an implicit
>  direction setter (IIRC that is what bidiv uses).
>
>  דגשים:
>   - אני משתמש רק בטקסט רגיל, לא HTML (ובקידוד UTF-8).
>
>   - היישור עובד טוב גם כשיש תווים נייטרלים בתחילת שורה (כמו המקפים
> והרווחים בתחילת שורות אלו).
>
>   - בעקבות אזכור של מישהו (איני זוכר מי) גיליתי שהתו מקף עליון '־' מוגדר
> ביוניקוד כתו עם ישור ימין-שמאל. זה פותר המון בעיות של צירופים קשים
> כגון "ה־9 לחודש" (נסו לכתוב זאת עם מקף רגיל).
> הבעיה -- התן הזה חסר בגופנים נפוצים ב־Windows (כמו Arial וכו'),
> לכן צמצמתי קצת את השימוש בו. האם במערכות שלכם רואים אותו?

In Gmail:
http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/tzafrir.png

I always send UTF-8 plaintext through Thunderbird. In Thunderbird with
the bidi extension, one can ALT-SHIFT-X to change text alignment. This
is for display only, though, and does not affect the message sent.

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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?


Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 25 בFebruary 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:14:20PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > >  איך ההודעה הזו נראית?

כפי שהיא צריכה להיות, מימין לשמאל וצמודה לימין.
אני משתמש ב־kmail גרסה 3.5.8 ב-Fedora.
In applications that use correct bidi algorithm the RTL is a given.
However the unicode bidi alrgorithm does not specify (AFAIR) the
*initial* paragraph direction.

So if there is no explicit information (e.g: RLE), the application
should have a reasonable heuristic. The most common such rule
is to use the first character of the paragraph as an implicit
direction setter (IIRC that is what bidiv uses).

דגשים:
  - אני משתמש רק בטקסט רגיל, לא HTML (ובקידוד UTF-8).

  - היישור עובד טוב גם כשיש תווים נייטרלים בתחילת שורה (כמו המקפים
והרווחים בתחילת שורות אלו).

  - בעקבות אזכור של מישהו (איני זוכר מי) גיליתי שהתו מקף עליון '־' מוגדר
ביוניקוד כתו עם ישור ימין-שמאל. זה פותר המון בעיות של צירופים קשים
כגון "ה־9 לחודש" (נסו לכתוב זאת עם מקף רגיל).
הבעיה -- התן הזה חסר בגופנים נפוצים ב־Windows (כמו Arial וכו'),
לכן צמצמתי קצת את השימוש בו. האם במערכות שלכם רואים אותו?




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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:59:11AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:14:15AM +0200, Oren Held wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I feel dumb.. Am I missing something, or is it just impossible to send 
> > Right-To-Left mails in plaintext?
> > Must I use HTML mails when I write in Hebrew?
> 
> איך ההודעה הזו נראית?
> 
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Hi
Provided my terminal is wide enough, I see your Hebrew sentence correct and
right-aligned, both in uxterm and mlterm (with bidi turned off).
Did not try the plain xterm, because I set it to start with LC_ALL=C, and
use it either with latin characters or with the old ISO Hebrew encoding.
If the terminal is narrower than your line's length, the line is split in
two, with its end appearing before (higher) than its beginning.
Mail client mutt. Locale en-US.UTF-8. Debian (mainly) etch.
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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:14 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
 <>  איך ההודעה הזו נראית?
> 
> In hebrew, but justified to the left

I use Evolution (version 2.6.3, from Debian Etch) to read my E-mail, and
in Evolution, the Hebrew line is right-justified, with RTL direction
(the question mark is to the left).

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:14:15AM +0200, Oren Held wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I feel dumb.. Am I missing something, or is it just impossible to send 
> Right-To-Left mails in plaintext?
> Must I use HTML mails when I write in Hebrew?

Tzafrir mentioned it off-hand, but I'd like to stress Nadav Har'El's bidiv. I
use it to page throgh Hebrew mails. It uses fribidi, and it is smart enough to
guess the right justification for each paragraph. It also does a fine job at 
guessing the input encoding of the text, and outputing in the correct encoding
according to your locale.

Dan.

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Micha
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:49:26 +0200
"Hetz Ben Hamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You can't use RTL in plain text mode because of a simple issue: what
> would tell the text to be in RTL? If's there's no HTML/CSS decleration
> about RTL, why should the mail be in RTL? I know that kmail for
> example is smart enough to detect that if a paragraph begins in hebrew
> text, then it should be automatically aligned to right (it was my idea
> to convince Lars from TrollTech to implement it, actually), but other
> mailers simply won't honour it.
> 
> I'll take myself for example: I'm using gmail and I'm using another
> account with HTML enabled to send Hebrew mail. That way I can be
> assured that the receiver side will get my Hebrew mail
> right-justified, in RTL and fully readable (unlike the Hebrew hotmail
> which comes junk at some web based mails).
> 
> So yes, you need to use HTML mode to send a full hebrew text which
> would display nicely on the other side. You could of course ignore
> this, but it's any body's guess how the other side will accept it.
> 

I use Claws Mail (sylpheed claws 3.3) and send the occasional hebrew mail. Never
had any complaints. The only issue is when mixing hebrew and english, so when
it's important and more than one word, I just break it into a new line for the
english (generally it's and equation or a link and such, so it's good to put it
on a new line anyway).

it does seem that the directionality is dependent on the encoding though. if
the encoding is misinterpreted I will also get the directionality wrong (most
mails I get are either cp1255 or unicode, as far as I know I am sending cp1255)

> Thanks,
> Hetz
> 
> >  First, kudos for using vim for mails. (Real men use 'ed' =) )
> >
> >  Maybe I was unclear: I wasn't talking about using Logical Hebrew - this I
> > take for granted.. I was talking about 'align to the right' and putting the
> > text in 'RTL mode', so that mixed Hebrew lines with few English words inside
> >  would be rendered correctly.
> >
> >  I find it funny if it's just not possible in plaintext.. I like
> > plaintext :)
> >
> >   - Oren
> 
> 

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Micha
sorry, sent it off list by mistake, for some reason reply to list doesn't work
with this list

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:37:18 +0200
Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:29:11 +
> Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:14:20PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > >  איך ההודעה הזו נראית?
> > > 
> > > In hebrew, but justified to the left
> > 
> > So gmail chose the strange hueristics of following the first ("strong")
> > character of the message.
> > 
> > bidiv showed it OK. Though in this reply the Hebrew paragraph will not
> > be properly aligned (it is now not part of a separate paragraph).
> > 

claws mail gets it correct actually, AFAIK due to using gtk2 which handles
that part.

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:14:20PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >  איך ההודעה הזו נראית?
> 
> In hebrew, but justified to the left

So gmail chose the strange hueristics of following the first ("strong")
character of the message.

bidiv showed it OK. Though in this reply the Hebrew paragraph will not
be properly aligned (it is now not part of a separate paragraph).

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi,

>  איך ההודעה הזו נראית?

In hebrew, but justified to the left

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:14:15AM +0200, Oren Held wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I feel dumb.. Am I missing something, or is it just impossible to send 
> Right-To-Left mails in plaintext?
> Must I use HTML mails when I write in Hebrew?

איך ההודעה הזו נראית?

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Tomer Cohen
Hi,

You can actually use RTL in UTF-8, just place RLE (U+202B) in the start of
each Hebrew sentence and PDF (U+202C) at the end (PDF is not a most, since
each end of sentence gets it automatically, but I see it as a good
practice). Keep in mind that some plain text users might scream at this
point since they can see that character. Also note that RLE/LRE..PDF has
nothing to do with line alignment, so you will still send it unprofessional.


I prefer to send email messages most of the time in HTML just because of
that, and to include plain text fallback which includes the RLE/LRE..PDF
there.

Tomer.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Oren Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I feel dumb.. Am I missing something, or is it just impossible to send
> Right-To-Left mails in plaintext?
> Must I use HTML mails when I write in Hebrew?
>
> Thanks
>
>  - Oren
>

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Herouth Maoz

Quoting Oren Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Monday 25 February 2008 06:36, Avraham Rosenberg wrote:

> I feel dumb.. Am I missing something, or is it just impossible to send
> Right-To-Left mails in plaintext?
> Must I use HTML mails when I write in Hebrew?

I use plain text for my E-mail in Hebrew (Mailer mutt, editor vi). My only
real problems are with the choice of encoding (utf-8 or ISO) and, when
writing to people who use windows, I have to remember that their mail
clients automatically reverse direction. So that I have to use a terminal
in which the Hebrew text appears reversed in my system.
As there is a variety of mailers in windows, and they do not treat Hebrew
exactly the same way, I receive from time to time complains about some
problems. Actually, I am not sure that these problems are related to their
mailer. The problem may be just the size of their window/vs the length of
my lines. Keeping lines short is a safe bet.


First, kudos for using vim for mails. (Real men use 'ed' =) )

Maybe I was unclear: I wasn't talking about using Logical Hebrew -   
this I take

for granted.. I was talking about 'align to the right' and putting the text
in 'RTL mode', so that mixed Hebrew lines with few English words inside
would be rendered correctly.

I find it funny if it's just not possible in plaintext.. I like plaintext :)


What you are referring to is text directionality. It's the parameter  
that guides the bilingual display algorithm. If the general text  
directionality is right-to-left, for example, the algorithm will place  
punctuation on the left side of a sentence and order parts in  
different directionalities properly from right to left.


Anyway, it's possible to do so in plain text if you use unicode, and  
embed unicode directionality characters at the beginning (and possibly  
the end - depending on your choince of directionality characters) of  
the paragraph.


However, though this method should work, some MUAs break long  
paragraphs into separate lines (which, from the unicode definition  
perspective, means that each line is a separate paragraph). That would  
cause only the first line in the paragraph will have proper  
directionality (it will be the only one that starts with a  
directionality character) and the rest will break.


The bottom line is that it is virtually impossible to properly display  
Hebrew if you use plaintext in e-mail.


Herouth

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi,

You can't use RTL in plain text mode because of a simple issue: what
would tell the text to be in RTL? If's there's no HTML/CSS decleration
about RTL, why should the mail be in RTL? I know that kmail for
example is smart enough to detect that if a paragraph begins in hebrew
text, then it should be automatically aligned to right (it was my idea
to convince Lars from TrollTech to implement it, actually), but other
mailers simply won't honour it.

I'll take myself for example: I'm using gmail and I'm using another
account with HTML enabled to send Hebrew mail. That way I can be
assured that the receiver side will get my Hebrew mail
right-justified, in RTL and fully readable (unlike the Hebrew hotmail
which comes junk at some web based mails).

So yes, you need to use HTML mode to send a full hebrew text which
would display nicely on the other side. You could of course ignore
this, but it's any body's guess how the other side will accept it.

Thanks,
Hetz

>  First, kudos for using vim for mails. (Real men use 'ed' =) )
>
>  Maybe I was unclear: I wasn't talking about using Logical Hebrew - this I 
> take
>  for granted.. I was talking about 'align to the right' and putting the text
>  in 'RTL mode', so that mixed Hebrew lines with few English words inside
>  would be rendered correctly.
>
>  I find it funny if it's just not possible in plaintext.. I like plaintext :)
>
>   - Oren


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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-24 Thread Oren Held
On Monday 25 February 2008 06:36, Avraham Rosenberg wrote:
> > I feel dumb.. Am I missing something, or is it just impossible to send
> > Right-To-Left mails in plaintext?
> > Must I use HTML mails when I write in Hebrew?
>
> I use plain text for my E-mail in Hebrew (Mailer mutt, editor vi). My only
> real problems are with the choice of encoding (utf-8 or ISO) and, when
> writing to people who use windows, I have to remember that their mail
> clients automatically reverse direction. So that I have to use a terminal
> in which the Hebrew text appears reversed in my system.
> As there is a variety of mailers in windows, and they do not treat Hebrew
> exactly the same way, I receive from time to time complains about some
> problems. Actually, I am not sure that these problems are related to their
> mailer. The problem may be just the size of their window/vs the length of
> my lines. Keeping lines short is a safe bet.

First, kudos for using vim for mails. (Real men use 'ed' =) )

Maybe I was unclear: I wasn't talking about using Logical Hebrew - this I take 
for granted.. I was talking about 'align to the right' and putting the text 
in 'RTL mode', so that mixed Hebrew lines with few English words inside  
would be rendered correctly.

I find it funny if it's just not possible in plaintext.. I like plaintext :)

 - Oren

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Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-24 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:14:15AM +0200, Oren Held wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I feel dumb.. Am I missing something, or is it just impossible to send 
> Right-To-Left mails in plaintext?
> Must I use HTML mails when I write in Hebrew?
> 
> Thanks
> 
>  - Oren
> 
Hi Oren,
I use plain text for my E-mail in Hebrew (Mailer mutt, editor vi). My only
real problems are with the choice of encoding (utf-8 or ISO) and, when writing
to people who use windows, I have to remember that their mail clients
automatically reverse direction. So that I have to use a terminal in which the
Hebrew text appears reversed in my system.
As there is a variety of mailers in windows, and they do not treat Hebrew
exactly the same way, I receive from time to time complains about some problems.
Actually, I am not sure that these problems are related to their mailer.
The problem may be just the size of their window/vs the length of my lines.
Keeping lines short is a safe bet.
Cheers, Avraham
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RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-24 Thread Oren Held
Hi,

I feel dumb.. Am I missing something, or is it just impossible to send 
Right-To-Left mails in plaintext?
Must I use HTML mails when I write in Hebrew?

Thanks

 - Oren

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