Avi Schwartz wrote:
I found the following information:
"The UNICODE specification assigns directionality to characters and
defines a (complex) algorithm for determining the proper
directionality of text."
Wikipedia says that "The Unicode standard also includes a number of
related items, such as character properties, text normalization forms,
and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text
containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic or Hebrew, and
left-to-right scripts)." But I don't think that directionality is
part of the property of a character. i.e., not a flag within that can
be examined.
I just found an interesting utility for the Mac called UnicodeChecker
which lead me to a set of text files called the Unicode Database which
describe the properties of each character including its direction. So
yes, there is a way to get this information.
Avi
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Avi Schwartz
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