From: Chris Jacobs (chris.jacobs@freeler.nl)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 12:26:42 CST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>
To: "'Jony Rosenne'" <rosennej@qsm.co.il>; "'Asmus Freytag'"
<asmusf@ix.netcom.com>; <jon@spin.ie>; <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:47 AM
Subject: RE: Unicode Public Review Issues update
> Jony Rosenne wrote:
> > I don't remember whether Hebrew Braille is written RTL or LTR.
>
> Braille is always LTR, even for Hebrew and Arabic.
>
> To be more precise, Braille is always LTR when you read it, but RTL when
> you
> write it manually (because it is engraved on the back side of the paper,
> using a dotted rule and a stylus).
Looks like those dots in paper have the Mirrored property:
If I take a piece of paper, make dots e.g. 2,3,4 with the 1,2,3,7 column to
the left and the 4,5,6,8 to the right, and then look at the backside then I
see the 1,2,3,7 column displayed to the right.
>
> _ Marco
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