Re: vertical direction control

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 19:09:57 EST

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    At 02:55 PM 3/23/2004, Thomas Kuehne wrote:
    >Is somebody already using a PUA assignment for vertical text direction
    >controls?
    >
    >from http://www.unicode.org/faq/bidi.html#1
    > > [...] the choice of vertical layout is usually treated as a
    > > formatting style; therefore, the Unicode Standard does not define
    > > default rendering behavior for vertical text nor provide
    > > directionality controls designed to override such behavior.
    >
    >Thanks in advance for any hints,

    I think the idea was that these don't belong in plain text.
    Markup languages have had vertical layout controls forever.

    A./



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