bidi

From: Chris Jacobs (c.t.mjacobs@freeler.nl)
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 21:09:59 CDT

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    > > Are you opposed in principle to having small encoded
    > > blocks which have multiple potential directionalities?
    >
    > Yes.
    >
    > The Unicode Standard is a plain text standard, *not* a
    > text layout standard. See Section 2.9 of The Unicode
    > Standard, Version 4.0 for what the standard has to say
    > on this.
    >
    > The extent of directional layout required of a *plain text*
    > standard is the bidirectional algorithm, which sorts
    > out how a (horizontal) *line* of text is laid out when
    > text of opposite directions is mixed. Beyond that, you
    > are on to higher level protocols for textual layout.
    > Those are out of scope for the Unicode Standard.
    >
    > --Ken

    And even for a "(horizontal) *line* of text"

    If you have rich text, so you can choose to use either the bidi algorithm or
    the rich text facilities to do the bidi.
    Then the rich text facilities are preferable?

    Right?



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