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Re: Localization issues: (WAS alpha v0.2)

At 10:40 00/01/25 -0800, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> At 04:11 PM 1/25/00 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> >Since most encoding systems (including the Unicode default) use "logical 
> >order" as the default direction (that is, left-to-right encoded left 
> >character first, right-to-left encoded right character first), my gut 
> >feeling is exactly the opposite: Encode in logical order always.
> 
> Yes, but we also have to look at how internal formatting is applied if it 
> is allowed. Unicode does allow you to say "reverse the following characters 
> on display". There are pages and pages of mind-numbing explanation in the 
> Unicode standard on this. We may want to disallow direction-changing within 
> a domain part.

Yes. There are codes to say 'reverse the following characters on
display'. But you can't put them on billboards. Therefore I agree
that it's a good idea to restrict some of the possibilities given
in Unicode, along the direction Paul is suggesting.

Regards,   Martin.


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium
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