From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Mon Aug 01 2005 - 15:08:15 CDT
I object. The proposal, were it to be accepted, would create havoc.
1) How would one tell, for example, if a 1 is an LTR 1 or an RTL 1?
2) Numbers should be LTR so they can be cut and pasted from and to other applications that treat them as numbers rather than text.
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Gregg Reynolds
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 8:08 PM
> To: Rick McGowan; 'Unicode'
> Subject: Re: Jumping Cursor. Was: Right-to-Left Punctuation Problem
>
>
> Rick McGowan wrote:
> >>What does "sponsors" mean on this web page:
> >>http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html
> >
> >
> > It means the people who submit the proposal. They are the
> sponsors of the
> > proposal.
> >
> > Anyone can submit a proposal.
> >
>
> I would be more than happy to submit or contribute to a
> proposal for the
> following strongly RTL codepoints:
>
> 0123456789
> ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩
> ( ) { } etc. - all brackets
> ' " ` etc.
>
> In short, all digits and weak directionals. This would be a
> wonderful
> thing for Arabic and Hebrew.
>
> But I get the distinct impression such a proposal would have
> virtually
> no chance of adoption. Am I overly pessimistic?
>
> Thanks,
>
> gregg
>
>
>
>
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