Re: Japanese RTL (was RE: Mongolian (was RE: Syriac and Mongolian

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 11:59:54 EST


on 1/12/00 8:00 AM, John Cowan at jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:

> Christopher John Fynn wrote:
>
>> Interestingly early Roman writing was boustrophedon, the directionality
>> of the lines alternating L2R then R2L, like a snake. When the lines were
>> R2L the letters also faced to the left.
>
> Yes, that brings up a good point. When scripts like Etruscan get into the
> UCS, should their letters be given the mirrored property, so than when
> they appear in the non-standard direction (LTR, presumably, since
> Etruscan was typically RTL) they get reversed?
>

Etruscan will probably be encoded as LTR letters. By the end of the
script's life, that was the predominant direction and it was always a valid
choice. The standard may further specify that the letters should reverse
shape when written RTL, however.

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