* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| Thank you very much for this. This kind of succinct no-nonsense
| summary is worth its weight in gold. (Collecting the same
| information through the normal sources might easily consume weeks.)
* Deborah Goldsmith
|
| Hmmm. Since it was sent electronically, I'm not quite sure what its
| weight in gold would be. :-)
I'm convinced that it's low enough that I can afford it, which is the
main thing. :-)
* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| It would be nice to know what this means in term of the rendering
| API. Is it possible to display RTL scripts without having the display
| system reverse the text? I hope it is, since without this capability
| proper bidi support is near-impossible to achieve.
* Deborah Goldsmith
|
| By default, RTL scripts are displayed in compliance with the Unicode
| bidirectional algorithm.
Ouch. That may work in some situations, but for a web browser that can
never work, since the display mechanism will never have enough
information to do this correctly. (Yeah, I'm taking a very narrow view
of this, I know.)
| It is of course possible to override this through use of directional
| override characters.
That might be one approach, but modifying every buffer before it goes
to the display is one complication it would be nice to be able to
avoid.
| It's also possible to use advanced APIs to disable bidi processing.
This sounds like a more appealing option. Do you have more detail on
what this involves? Is there an extra method call for turning it off
or a flag that must be set, or does it require the use of a different
API for rendering?
-- Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net > ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >
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