Re: Summary of Unicode/language features in Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar"

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 06:15:30 EDT


At 09:23 +0200 2002-08-28, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>| By default, RTL scripts are displayed in compliance with the Unicode
>| bidirectional algorithm.
>
>Ouch. That may work in some situations, but for a web browser that can
>never work, since the display mechanism will never have enough
>information to do this correctly. (Yeah, I'm taking a very narrow view
>of this, I know.)

I can't think of a reason why a web browser should not be able to
implement the Unicode bidirectional algorithm.

-- 
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com



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