Re: Shaping characters in upright orientation in vertical text flow

On 2012/01/18 16:34, Matitiahu Allouche wrote:
> But would not a LamAlef ligature be considered a single "user-perceived
> character"?

I'm a complete outsider, but I'd would definitely assume so. Also, any 
vowel marks or other additional marks would go together with the base 
letter.

Regards,   Martin.

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> From:   John Cowan<cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
> To:     "'WWW International'"<www-international@w3.org>,
> "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org"<public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>
> Date:   18/01/2012 07:59
> Subject:        Re: Shaping characters in upright orientation in vertical
> text flow
> Sent by:        John Cowan<cowan@ccil.org>
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> fantasai scripsit:
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>> "grapheme cluster" is a technical term meant to encompass,
> roughly-speaking,
>> a "user-perceived character" (to quote UAX29). While Arabic letters may
>> cursively join, a joined sequence is most definitely not considered a
> single
>> "user-perceived character".
>
> Fair enough.
>

Received on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 08:36:36 UTC