According to the Unicode standard (see
http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/BidiMirroring.txt ), the 2 characters at
201C and 201D are mirroring mates, meaning that within a right-to-left
context, 201C should be displayed as Right Double Quotation Mark and 201D
should be displayed as Left Double Quotation Mark.
It seems that Firefox 2.0.0.1 is doing the right thing.
Shalom (Regards), Mati
Bidi Architect
Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
IBM Israel
Phone: +972 2 5888802 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 52
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"Zvi Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Double quotation marks in Unicode Hebrew
Shalom BIDI gurus!
To distinguish, in Hebrew Unicode text, between quotation marks (מרכאות)
and
gershayim (גרשיים), I have been using for the opening quotation marks the
unicode DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK U+201E (Windows-1255 0x84) and closing
quotation marks the unicode LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK U+201C
(Windows-1255:
0x93). For geshayim I used of course the unicode HEBREW PUNCTUATION
GERSHAYIM
U+05F4 (Windows-1255 0xD8).
This arrangement looks best for me, although most modern books use (I
think
because of sheer laziness) the same glyph for all three (gershayim).
However,
I just noticed that Firefox 2.0.0.1 mirrors the LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
and
displays instead the RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK U+201D (Windows-1255:
0x94).
Firefox 1.5.0.9, Opera 9.10, and MSIE (sic) 6.0 All do not do it. Is this
the
correct behaviour under the UNICODE BIDI algorithm? Should I replace all
my
U+201C with U+201D so that they will look OK after mirroring? You can view
my
Web pages at http://JV.Gilead.org.il/hebrew/ and
http://JV.Gilead.org.il/FAQ/index.he.html for examples of usage of these
punctuation marks.
Kol tuv,
Zvi.
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