From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 14:22:03 EST
At 13:55 -0500 2004-03-24, Ernest Cline wrote:
>It is reasonable for Unicode to ignore boustrophedon at present
>because it is not necessary for the scripts it currently supports and
>it adds an extra and usually unneeded layer of complexity to the
>bidirectional algorithm. If Unicode ever adds a boustrophedon
>only script, then in my opinion, leaving the issue to higher levels
>would be insufficient and Unicode will have to bite the bullet
>and address boustrophedon in the standard itself.
Perhaps you should take this up with the keepers of the Bidi algorithm, Ernest.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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