From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Tue Dec 13 2005 - 14:54:29 CST
The Unicode Technical Committee has revised Public Review Issue #80,
including the background document, and issued another proposed update of
UAX #9.
Details are on this page:
http://www.unicode.org/review/
The closing date for this issue has been revised to January 30, 2006.
Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
Briefly, the issue is:
80 Proposed Update to UAX #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm
The Unicode Bidi algorithm has allowed for a great deal of flexibility in
determining which characters are to be mirrored (see HL6
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-16.html#HL6). Unfortunately, that
means that text that originates with one person may show up with the wrong
graphic to another, thus causing the text to be misinterpreted. The
proposal is to tighten up conformance by eliminating overriding of bidi
mirroring, and at the same time extending the characters with the
Bidi_Mirrored property.
The UTC would like public feedback on whether to make this change, and
which characters should have the Bidi_Mirrored property. The proposed
change is to retain the set of characters currently having Bidi_Mirrored
property, and add some additional characters with similar properties. For
further information and character lists, see the background document for
this issue.
If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by
submitting your comments through our feedback & reporting page:
http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html
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Regards,
Rick McGowan
Unicode, Inc.
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