Guido van Rossum wrote: > This actually seems a killer even for allowing Unicode in comments, > which I'd otherwise favor. What do Unicode-aware apps generally do > with right-to-left characters?
The Unicode standard has an elaborate definition of what should happen. There are many rules to it, but essentially, there is the notion of a "primary" direction, which then is toggled based on the directionality of each character (unicodedata.bidirectional). There are also formatting characters which toggle the direction. This aspect of rendering is often not implemented, though. Web browsers do it correctly, see http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python where all text should come out right-adjusted, yet the Latin fragments are still left to right (such as "Guido van Rossum") Integrating it into this text looks like this: פייתון (Python). GUI frameworks sometimes do it correctly, sometimes don't; most notably, Tk has no good support for RTL text. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
