Re: Proposal for BiDi in terminal emulators

From: Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:36:58 +0200

> From: Egmont Koblinger <egmont_at_gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 14:16:03 +0100
> Cc: Adam Borowski <kilobyte_at_angband.pl>, unicode_at_unicode.org
>
> There's absolutely no way we could reorder first, and then handle
> TAB's cursor movement. TAB's cursor movement happens in the lower
> layer, reordering happens in the upper one.

But that means you won't ever be able to be in compliance with UAX#9,
because TAB has distinct properties that affect the UBA. If you
reorder after all TABs have been converted to spaces, you will not be
able to implement the support for Segment Separator characters. Am I
missing something?
Received on Fri Feb 01 2019 - 07:37:22 CST

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