Re: Mongolian

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Feb 26 1996 - 05:13:45 EST

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At 16:26 1996-02-25, unicode@Unicode.ORG wrote:

>Currently, only left-to-right and horizontal is supported. Vertical
>text editing in our system is still months away. I haven't had time
>to research Mongolian properly, so I wasn't aware it was also written
>right-to-left.

Naah, I just guessed that Arabic technology could be coaxed into supporting
Mongolian, with the presentation forms and all. In horizontal contexts, I
have seen Mongolian printed both R-L and L-R.

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