On 17 Jul 2011, at 10:14, Julian Bradfield wrote:
>> The RTL and LTR overrides *function* on the text when inserted into text. So you can't use those with glyphs in a font to represent for example the UCS dotted-boxes-with-letters, because they are control characters and will affect the text.
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> Wouldn't it be more economical to encode a single UNICODE ESCAPE CHARACTER which forces the following character to be interpreted as a printable glyph rather than any control function?
I think that invisible and stateful control characters are more expensive than ordinary graphic symbols.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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