- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 17:10:10 +0900
- To: "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>
- CC: W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
On 2012/05/15 5:06, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote: > Last week, I wrote up and Mark Davis submitted to the UTC a proposal ( > http://goo.gl/K6qtV) for adding bidi isolation to Unicode. Here is the > basic proposal: > > --- start quote --- > Define three new Unicode formatting code points: > LRI: marks the beginning of a left-to-right isolate. > RLI: marks the beginning of a right-to-left isolate. > FSI: marks the beginning of a first-strong isolate. > > Each would be matched with a PDF. It may be worth considering to create a new character to close these embeddings. Otherwise, older algorithms will close LRE/RLE/LRO/RLO embeddings/overrides prematurely. Another question: What's the relationship between this proposal and the new bidi control character that was proposed (I think by Apple) around last November's UTC? Regards, Martin.
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