Re: Caret

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 09:35:03PM +0100, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> I understand then. You have a single logical position (in encoded plain text),
> that maps to two visual positions which may be considered AFTER depending on
> the direction properties of the character that you *may* type.
>
> A single vertical line assumes however that you'll type a character which will
> use the SAME direction as the character BEFORE the insertion point.
>
> This case remains very infrequent: it is extremely rare to start typing text in
> the middle between RTL and LTR text. Usually typing occurs at end of a
> paragraph, and most paragraphs use a single direction and when you have to
> insert new text in the middle of a paragraph, this is extremely rarely between
> a visual-LTR sequence and a viual RTL sequence (I think the most frequent case
> will occur between digits and letters/symbols, in cases like currency amounts
> or measurements).

I’m not sure from where you are getting your statistics, but I’ve to
deal with all those “rare” and “extremely rare” situations all the day.

Regards,
 Khaled
Received on Mon Nov 12 2012 - 15:32:07 CST