Raphael Finkel wrote on 2001-09-07 15:46 UTC:
> If I have Hebrew Unicode text (Right-to-left) and a character is followed by a
> composing character, should the "visual order" produced by BIDI algorithms such
> as fribidi put the main character first or the composing character first?
>
> Fribidi puts the composing character first, which xterm mispositions.
>
> Is this a bug or a feature?
I assume the only purpose of any "visual order" produced by fibidi is to
make text readable under terminal emulators without bidi support,
therefore it will obviously have to follow for combining characters the
normal Unicode postscript convention (combining character follows base
character). So what you describe sounds like a bug in fribidi to me.
Markus
P.S.: CCed to linux-utf8 to give the bidi gurus there a chance to
comment as well. Also have a look at <http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/ucdata.html>.
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
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