Re: UAX #9: applicability of higher-level protocols to bidi plaintext

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:43:36 +0000 (UTC)
philip chastney via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, 17/7/18, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
> wrote:
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> > Subject: Re: UAX #9: applicability of higher-level protocols to
> > bidi plaintext To: unicode_at_unicode.org
> > Date: Tuesday, 17 July, 2018, 3:30 AM
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> > An interesting ambiguity is "!True" v. "True!". 
> > "!True" can be read as "Not true".
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> true - there are contexts where "!True" can be read as "Not true".

The context I had in mind was terse exchanges between those who have
recently programmed in C. Thus, 'true' would be read as 'true' rather
than as '1', and '!true' as 'not true'.

A longer context would usually eliminate the ambiguity.

Richard.
Received on Wed Jul 18 2018 - 13:45:59 CDT