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

["Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>]

At 18:27 00/01/26 +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Martin J. Duerst wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> But when you fully normalize; such pure display cases cease to exist; and
> all you have left are the semantic meaning full ones (which do show on
> your bill board); for example when mixing languages.

There are possibilities to do some normalization for BIDI problems,
but I have never seen any specific algorithm described.


> If I recall correctly par 17.3 specifically disallows those 
> meaningless order changes when the sentence is flattened out.

par 17.3 of what? Any references/pointers?

Regards,  Martin.


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