Thank you.
Section 3.5 confused me: Shaping, that is selection of
cursive-connected shapes, is applied after the UBA reordering. However
other character to glyph conversions are applied before it "(taking
the embedding levels into account for mirroring)".
>2018-02-26 21:45 GMT+02:00, Ken Whistler <kenwhistler_at_att.net>:
> On 2/26/2018 7:11 AM, QSJN 4 UKR wrote:
>>> The UBA reorders the display order in layout -- not the underlying
>>> string.
>> What?
>>
>> UBA reorders characters, not glyphs.
>
> Actually it does not. The backing order storage of the text is
> unaffected. See UAX #9:
>
> "When working with bidirectional text, the characters are still
> interpreted in logical order--only the display is affected."
>
> And see Section 3.4, Reordering Resolved Levels. The character stream is
> mapped onto glyphs *in logical order*.
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