RE: Directionality as mere formatting

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Please let me know what is special in the Egyptian standards regarding
glyph mirroring..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Everson [SMTP:everson@indigo.ie]
> Sent: Wed, November 05, 1997 10:26 AM
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> Subject: Re: Directionality as mere formatting
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> Ar 11:01 -0500 1997-11-05, scríobh <ECOLING@aol.com>:
>
> >5. Michael Everson's comments on Egyptian standard conventions for
> coding
> >glyph mirroring are of course relevant. (As an aside, I am strongly
> in favor
> >of international standards adopting something structurally isomorphic
> to the
> >current Egyptological conventions, though probably not using exactly
> the same
> >ASCII codes with formatting meanings, since in larger code space that
> is not
> >necessary.) Can Mr. Everson explain slightly more?
>
> No, he cannot. Please wait until the WG2 papers are available.
>
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