The current bidi discussion prompts me to post a curiosity I received today.
I ordered something from a (UK) company, and the payment receipt came via Stripe. So far, so common. The curious thing is that the (entirely ASCII) company name was enclosed in a left-to-right direction, thus: Subject: Your <LRE>Aaaaaaa Ltd<POP> receipt [#nnnn-nnnn] where <LRE> and <POP> are the bidi control characters. I don't think I've seen this before - I wonder why it happened? Also today I got an otherwise ASCII message where every paragraph started with BOM (or ZWNBSP as my font prefers to call it). I see from the web that people used to do this - anybody know what the most common software packages that do it are? -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
