Re: Caret

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz_at_gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:53:02 +0200

> From: Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:35:03 +0100
> Cc: UnicoDe List <unicode_at_unicode.org>
>
> This case remains very infrequent: it is extremely rare to start typing
> text in the middle between RTL and LTR text. Usually typing occurs at end
> of a paragraph, and most paragraphs use a single direction and when you
> have to insert new text in the middle of a paragraph, this is extremely
> rarely between a visual-LTR sequence and a viual RTL sequence (I think the
> most frequent case will occur between digits and letters/symbols, in cases
> like currency amounts or measurements).

If by "rare" you mean less than 50%, then I agree. But this case is
frequent enough to annoy. And yes, making changes between letters and
digits is by far the most frequent situation where this happens.
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