Bidi Mirroring and Ogham (was: Multiple Directions)

From: Ernest Cline (ernestcline@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 14:26:22 CDT

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    > [Original Message]
    > From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
    > To: <unicode@unicode.org>
    > Date: 5/14/2004 1:46:46 PM
    > Subject: Re: Multiple Directions (was: Re: Coptic/Greek (Re: Phoenician))
    >
    > You can't play around with Ogham directionality like that. Reversing
    > it makes it read completely differently! The first example reads
    > INGACLU; the second reads ULCAGNI.

    Perhaps Ogham characters need to have the Bidi Mirroring property for
    proper display when they are presented in a RTL fashion? Then the
    slants could be reversed and the marks above the line become marks
    below the line and vice versa.



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