From: Ernest Cline (ernestcline@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 11:31:29 EST
> [Original Message]
> From: <jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com>
> To: <chris.jacobs@freeler.nl>; <peterkirk@qaya.org>; <unicode@unicode.org>
> Date: 3/24/2004 2:35:50 PM
> Subject: RE: vertical direction control
>
> > Which scripts are written bottom to top in vertical layout?
>
> The Unicode bidi faq tells that ancient Numidian was written bottom to
top,
> and the Egyptian hieroglyphics could go basically in any direction. Then
again,
> it also says that developers shouldn't really worry overmuch about these.
It also doesn't account for boustrephedon writing direction either.
If Moon Code [1] is ever added as a Unicode script, then Unicode
may need to deal with the fact that this script is written today using
boustrephedon. The other boustrephedon scripts are, if I remember
correctly, either ancient and/or also usable with a non-boustrephedon
writing direction. On the other hand, it might just leave this detail to
a higher level protocol.
[1] http://www.bsblind.co.uk/full/moon/typeindx.htm
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