Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> Granted. The main point is that we have to reinterpret bidi in way that
> fits with TeX's/ConTeXt's needs, idiosyncracies, etc.... I don't believe
> we need to treat the unicode bidi algorithm as canonical.
i think that we should stick to things that make sense; with tex we're
often talking of tagged sources and anything ambiguous should be tagged;
in a sense this is not even related to arab at all, take an url ... i
can imagine an url-algorithm, but it could never be perfect (just see
what some programs that try to do it sometimes make of it)
if for instance ( ) are officially not symbols but open/close thingies,
then we need to deal with them (although i then wonder why we have no
proper open/close code point for them instead of reusing the ascii ()
which have for users some expected visual appearance, but in that
respect unicode puzzles me on a daily basis)
Hans
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