RE: bidi discussion list was: Bidi Markup vs Unicode control characters

These are scripts, not languages.

The Hebrew script, for instance, is routinely used for at least three
languages and rarely used for many more.

The Arabic script is used for a number of languages today, and historically
for many more.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-international-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 5:44 PM
> To: Stephen Deach
> Cc: Martin Duerst; Ognyan Kulev; Tex Texin; Addison Phillips; 
> www-international@w3.org; Richard Ishida; Bert Bos
> Subject: Re: bidi discussion list was: Bidi Markup vs Unicode 
> control characters
> 
> 
> 
> Stephen Deach scripsit:
> 
> > The only scripts identified as RTL in Unicode are Arabic 
> and Hebrew.  
> 
> In fact, Syriac and Tifinagh are already encoded in Unicode, 
> as well as the
> archaic scripts Cypriot and Kharoshthi.  Phoenician has been 
> fully blessed
> and will be in the next version.
> 
> Still in the long tail are Old Hungarian (aka rovasiras), 
> Avestan, Mandaic,
> Samaritan, Manichaean, and perhaps others.
> 
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