RE: Multiple Writing Directions in One Script

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 15:37:52 CDT

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    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
    On Behalf
    > Of Dean Snyder

    > Archaic Greek could be written right-to-left, left-to-right, or
    boustrophedon.
    >
    > I'm asking for technical advice as to how such variability in writing
    > direction streams in the same script can be, and should be, handled in
    > Unicode, and how it should be dealt with in a Unicode proposal.

    Check out what was done in Unicode 4.0 wrt Old Italic.

    Peter
     
    Peter Constable
    Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
    Microsoft Windows Division

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