Re: [BULK] - Re: Vertical BIDI

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Fri May 28 2004 - 08:51:27 CDT

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    > As things now stand, Ogham must be wrapped in RLO...PDF brackets when
    > mixed with vertical Han or Mongolian.

    Yes, that's true -- and I don't see any reason why people can't live with
    that... Those are the kinds of reasons we have the explicit controls.

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "John Cowan" <cowan@ccil.org>
    To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>
    Cc: "Mike Ayers" <mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com>; <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Thu, 2004 May 27 21:26
    Subject: Re: [BULK] - Re: Vertical BIDI

    > Mark Davis scripsit:
    >
    > > What the Bidi Algorithm says both of these is at:
    > >
    > > http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Vertical_Text
    >
    > However, it does not specify the treatment of Ogham embedded in TTB
    > text, since Ogham is the only script with both a required horizontal
    > direction (LTR) and a required vertical one (BTT).
    >
    > As things now stand, Ogham must be wrapped in RLO...PDF brackets when
    > mixed with vertical Han or Mongolian.
    >
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