On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:38:45 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: > >... a tractable case; but there are also requirements to embed, >say, Arabic or Hebrew text, written from right to left, in Danish >text, written from left to right. There is probably no escape from >the ugly device of > ><shift in> ||<descriptor> ||<foreign text> ||<shift out>. > I should think that Unicode meets the vocabulary requirements, and that editors successfully deal with the presentation problem with no <shift-in>-shift-out sequences (example: Gadi's name, cribbed from an earlier message די בן אבי). I'm Hebrew-illiterate; others will need to judge the presentation.
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