From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 16:18:12 CDT
At 12:19 PM 5/25/2004, Dean Snyder wrote:
>Archaic Greek exhibits variable glyph stance, that is, glyphs can be
>flipped horizontally or even vertically, usually dependent upon the
>direction of the writing stream.
>
>How should variable glyph stance for the same characters in the same
>script be dealt with in Unicode and in a Unicode proposal?
Change in orientation of the glyphs that's based on the writing direction
should not be encoded via character codes. If it can't be determined
automatically by a layout engine (as for mirrored characters) then
explicit markup would be needed.
Change in orientation of glyphs that are used to express differences in
meaning are a candidate for encoding via character codes (vz. Arrows,
phonetic symbols, inverted A and E for quantifiers, etc.).
A./
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