Software and hardware obsolescence in the kernel

My explanations may render incorrectly if you read them in a terminal emulator, since most of them [1] don't support Unicode's algorithm for laying out mixed LTR-RTL text [2]. I though that I had made a fool of my self on the Internet when I read my comment notification in mutt, but it turned out that I hadn't. (Or at least not this time.)

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_text#Unicode_...