From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun May 31 2009 - 20:27:07 CDT
This looks like a bug. Contact the vendor.
On 5/31/2009 12:21 PM, David Perry wrote:
> I want to print some text using the Old Italic characters in RTL mode,
> mixed in with English. I type the following, where [RLO] is a right
> to left override and [[PDF] is a pop directional format:
>
> English text [RLO]OLD ITALIC[PDF] more English
>
> but I get "OLD ITALIC" instead of "CILATI DLO" where OLD ITALIC
> contains characters in the range U+10300 ff. If I do the same using
> English instead of Old Italic characters, the text between the RLO and
> the PDF appears backwards, which I think is exactly what should
> happen. Given that Old Italic characters are strongly LTR, like the
> Latin script, why is the behavior different? Is there something
> special about Plane 1 characters? I have tried in Notepad and also
> BabelPad on Windows Vista, using three different fonts that contain
> the Old Italic block. (For the record: I know that I also need
> mirrored shapes for many of the characters, and I can handle that; I
> just don't understand why the directional marks don't work.)
>
> Thanks - David
>
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