From: John Cowan (cowan@ccil.org)
Date: Fri May 28 2004 - 08:58:06 CDT
Mark Davis scripsit:
> > As things now stand, Ogham must be wrapped in RLO...PDF brackets when
> > mixed with vertical Han or Mongolian.
>
> Yes, that's true -- and I don't see any reason why people can't live with
> that... Those are the kinds of reasons we have the explicit controls.
Because horizontal vs. vertical should be under the control of a higher-level
protocol such as CSS. In order for this to work properly, CSS has to
"reach down inside" the bidi algorithm and jimmy it; or, to put it
another way, the character-level representation of Ogham has to have
knowledge of what overall directionality it is going to be imbedded in.
Both are Bad Things.
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