Re: Vertical BIDI

From: fantasai (fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net)
Date: Thu May 27 2004 - 16:40:42 CDT

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Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> Elaine asked:
>
>
>>>This is a shortcoming in Unicode BIDI: it currently
>>>only represents horizontal directionality, not
>>>vertical directionality. As far as I
>>
>>So, does this mean that in 3 years there might be
>>vertical bidi?
>
> No.

Since this interests me a bit more than the Phoenician thread...
What do you consider vertical bidi, and why should it not be in
Unicode?

~fantasai

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