From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Tue Dec 23 2003 - 19:02:34 EST
Michael Everson:
> Perhaps it must be in any case, due to directionality issues.
If you have looked at those pages, you have seen that they were coded as a
cypher of Latin, but with no implied association with these letters. It just
allows using the existing font technology in a way that is not Unicode
compliant as it shows unrelated glyphs for standard Latin letters.
Directionality issue would be a problem, but the texts presented are simply
right-ligned using HTML table cells, and by encoding in the visual
left-to-right order rather than the logical right-to-left order actually
used in these rendered texts (provided that you use the required font, else
the text has no meaning with standard fonts made for the Latin script).
So look precisely: there's no BiDi override in the HTML pages, and the texts
are coded in the reverse order: this is evident when you look at the
position of digits and at the space logically added after colons, but
presented before them if you read texts correctly from right to left.
There's no Latin script in those pages, which just use Latin as a convenient
cypher meant to be used with the appropriate font.
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