RE: Colouring combining Marks (was: unicode Digest V5 #149)

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Wed Jun 22 2005 - 01:15:55 CDT

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Gregg Reynolds [mailto:gar@arabink.com]
    > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:19 AM
    > To: Jony Rosenne
    > Cc: 'Unicode Mailing List'
    > Subject: Re: Colouring combining Marks (was: unicode Digest V5 #149)
    >
    >
    > Jony Rosenne wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > > In visual, embedded numbers and English are typed reversed,
    > in visual order,
    > > while in logical order they are typed naturally and the
    > software does the
    > > RTL/LTR processing.
    > >
    > Whoa nelly! "Naturally"?
    >
    > In Arabic, this notion of "natural" ordering is just plain wrongo.
    > Meaningless. Is it different in Hebrew?

    What has Arabic to do with the natural order of embedded English? Or
    numbers?

    Jony

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    > -g
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