- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:22:24 -0500
- To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>
- Cc: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org" <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>, "'WWW International' (www-international@w3.org)" <www-international@w3.org>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Phillips, Addison scripsit: > 1. The thing being shaped "upright" should be a grapheme cluster. Note > that this may not be a *default* grapheme cluster. > > 2. Upright should *mean* upright. It may not be a good idea to apply > it to, for example, Arabic text, but what's the point of a style > if it doesn't do what you ask it too? But what are you asking for? Arguably a (non-default) grapheme cluster in Arabic is any number of letters up to a non-joining or right-joining character, inclusive. That would just look silly in vertical mode. -- Do what you will, John Cowan this Life's a Fiction cowan@ccil.org And is made up of http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Contradiction. --William Blake
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