On 4/20/2014 6:54 PM, James Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com
> <mailto:asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>
> On 4/20/2014 3:24 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Would someone please help understand the following subtleties and
>> obscure language in the UBA document found at
>> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/? Thanks in advance.
>> 3. Paragraph 3.3.2 says, under "Non-formatting characters":
>>
>> X6. For all types besides B, BN, RLE, LRE, RLO, LRO, PDF, RLI, LRI,
>> FSI, and PDI:
>>
>> . Set the current character’s embedding level to the embedding
>> level of the last entry on the directional status stack.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Note that the current embedding level is not changed by this rule.
>>
>> What does this last sentence mean by "the current embedding level"?
>> The first bullet of X6 mandates that "the current character’s
>> embedding level" _is_ changed by this rule, so what other "current
>> embedding level" is alluded to here?
> I'm punting on that one - can someone else answer this?
>
>
> I assume "current embedding level" here meant "the embedding level of
> the last entry on the directional status stack". (This is a natural
> slip to make if you think in terms of an optimized implementation that
> stores each component of the top of the directional status stack in a
> variable, as suggested in 3.3.2.)
>
> James
>
In general, I heartily dislike "specifications" that just narrate a
particular implementation...
A./
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