Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> I think the first and most important step here is to
> build a very full and descriptive list of all the
> quirks, and hopefully decide what a 100% quirk-free
> bidi algorithm would be.  Is the Unicode bidi
> algorithm perfect if everybody implemented it perfectly?

It doesn't really matter if it's ideal, it's the only one we've got ;)  But cf.
http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/ucdata.html

> I think I've seen these kinds of quirks in Hebrew with
> hyphens connecting Hebrew endings to English words.
> I got varied results between different Unicode
> editors, mozilla, and IE; and more variation depending on
> whether I used the ASCII hyphen or the special Hebrew
> hyphen.  I think World.abw contains this example.
>
> Is this one of the known quirks?

Yes, see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73251 .  Summary: Mozilla is
right, IE is wrong ;)

Al.

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