Bidi and Empty Parentheses

[Richard Wordingham]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:38:20 +0200
Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:41:03 -0800
> > Cc: unicode at corp.unicode.org
> > From: Ken Whistler via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org>
> > 
> > Richard,
> > 
> > "x()y"  
> 
> Maybe there's a misunderstanding.  Richard said "in a right-to-left
> embedding", so I tried
> 
>   RLE x ( ) y PDF
> 
> and got "y()x" on display.

Thank you for the confirmation, Ken.  LibreOffice (on Ubuntu) and
Word and Notepad (Windows 10) agree with you on Eli's example.

Eli, Emacs (e.g. 28.0.91) gets it wrong.  Bug report tonight if I can
get Emacs to work with Claws.

Richard.