Re: unicode and right-to-left

From: Markus Kuhn (Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 10 1999 - 09:12:03 EDT


Michael Everson wrote on 1999-06-10 11:59 UTC:
> Ar 01:52 -0700 1999-06-10, scríobh Markus Kuhn:
>
> >I don't think the ISO 10646-1 standard talks a lot about bi-directional
> >support. In contrast to Unicode, ISO 10646-1 is only a character table
> >without much added semantics.
>
> ISO/IEC 10646 is an interchange standard, that's why.

What exactly is an "interchange standard"?

Markus

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