RE: Display of Mongolian in Arabic or Hebrew documents

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2007 - 20:18:27 CST

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    I don't know of any established convention. I'd expect it to have the same orientation it has when embedded in English text, but cannot provide any source reference to back that up.

    Peter

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
    > Behalf Of Eric Muller
    > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 5:24 PM
    > To: Unicode Mailing List
    > Subject: Re: Display of Mongolian in Arabic or Hebrew documents
    >
    > Eric Muller wrote:
    > > When a short fragment (say a word or two) of Mongolian is embedded in
    > > English text, the modern practice is apparently to rotate it 90
    > > degrees counter clockwise from its normal appearance.
    > >
    > > Question: what is the practice (if any) when embedding a short
    > > fragment of Mongolian in Arabic or Hebrew text? In particular, if
    > > rotated 90 degrees, is it clockwise or counter clockwise? Supporting
    > > scans would be welcome.
    > >
    >
    > To close this one: no example was provided either to this list or to me
    > directly. The general sentiment is that there is probably no
    > established
    > practice.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Eric.
    >
    >



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