Re: unicode and right-to-left

From: Timothy Partridge (timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 10 1999 - 18:07:42 EDT


In message <9906100858.AA07488@unicode.org> Markus Kuhn recently said:

> The Unicode bidi standard was not written with VT100 terminal editing
> semantics in mind, and the bidi parts of ISO 6429 are not the most
> readable specification on the planet.
...
> ISO 6429 = ECMA-48 is freely available from
>
> http://www.ecma.ch/
> ftp://ftp.ecma.ch/ecma-st/e048-pdf.pdf

There is also Technical Report TR/53 available from the ECMA which discusses
some the issues in doing bidi on a 6429 device.

   Tim

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