From: Ernest Cline (ernestcline@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 18:30:55 CDT
> [Original Message]
> From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
>
> At 16:56 -0400 2004-05-14, Ernest Cline wrote:
>
> >(I am assuming that "Good gods." was not intended to mean
> >"Brilliant! That's what Unicode should be doing!") So for those who
> >find a need to represent Ogham in RTL, how would you propose that
> >it be done?
>
> What I meant was that I was amazed that you considered it even
> remotely possible that anyone would "find a need to represent
> Ogham in RTL".
Only because of the way that Unicode handles vertical scripts by
assigning them a LTR direction and leaving it up to higher
levels to make the perpendicular flip. If someone wanted to include
a vertical snippet of Ogham in a top to bottom script, they might
desire to have the Ogham go from bottom to top, and that would
make RTL Ogham reasonable in that context.
It is a pedantic edge case that ought to be considered once
raised (as it has been) even though I wouldn't recommend
actively seeking out other such edge cases. :)
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