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Subject: Re: [office] Bi-directional text.
Hello Robert, > I'm no expert in this area, but a few weeks ago I had a discussion on Bidi > with Jonathan Ben Avraham, who is involved with the Hebrew OpenOffice > project (http://he.openoffice.org) > > I came to the conversation with the view that the Bidi algorithm in > Unicode was sufficient. Jonathan pointed out some of the complexities of > real-world use and why the Unicode mechanism alone is not sufficient. > > To paraphrase our conversation, to support Bidi the format needs to > support base direction as well as aligment. If you try to guess from the > character encoding alone, it fails, in areas like: very instructive post, as usual :) . Should we infere from it that the same holds true for VTL and to a lesser extent, CTL (CTL has to do with encoding, not necessarily base direction)? Thanks, -- Charles-H. Schulz, Associé / Associate, Ars Aperta.
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