Re: Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left Marks in 8-bit charsets

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> The left-to-right mark U+200E and the right-to-left mark U+200F
> are included in
> - Hebrew ISO-8859-8
> - Hebrew Windows-1255
> - Arabic Windows-1256
> at code positions xFD and xFE.
>
> But they are not included in Arabic ISO-8859-6, where code positions
> xFD and xFE are empty.
>
> What is the reason for this asymmetric behaviour?

Asymmetric behaviour by the national standards bodies
participating in the development of ISO 8859 parts
in the context of SC2/WG3, before SC2 agreed that
further development of 8859 parts was in no one's
best interests and focussed instead just on ISO/IEC 10646.

--Ken

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