Quoting UAX#27, Unicode 3.1, Section 7.10:
Directionality. Most early Etruscan texts have right-to-left
directionality. From the third century BCE, left-to-right texts
appear, showing the influence of Latin. Oscan, Umbrian, and Faliscan
also generally have right-to-left directionality. Boustrophedon
appears rarely, and not especially early (for instance, the Forum
inscription dates to 550-500 BCE). Despite this, for reasons of
implementation simplicity, many scholars prefer left-to-right
presentation of texts, as this is also their practice when
transcribing the texts into Latin script. Accordingly, the Old Italic
script has a default directionality of strong left-to-right in this
standard. When directional overrides are used to produce right-to-left
presentation, the glyphs in fonts must be mirrored from the glyphs
shown in the tables below.
Doesn't that mean that we need to have Bidi Mirroring property as 'Y' for
those characters?
roozbeh
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