Re: Vertical scripts (was: Tategaki (was: Re: Updated...))

From: DougEwell2@cs.com
Date: Wed Dec 26 2001 - 00:48:42 EST


In a message dated 2001-12-25 16:57:39 Pacific Standard Time,
adia@egnatia.ee.auth.gr writes:

> Unicode doesn't have some way to indicate vertical writing. I think the
> only consideration for it is vertical presentation forms of some
> characters. Anything more is left for other software layers to deal
> with.

Seeing that Unicode already has left-to-right and right-to-left override
characters, I wonder if a top-to-bottom override character might also be
reasonable.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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