Re: [emacs-bidi] UTR#9 - Unicode BiDi (was Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos) (fwd)

2003-10-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
behdad, who is going to study after finishing this mail. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:54:31 -0400 From: Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [emacs-bidi] UTR#9 - Unicode

Re: UTR#9 - Unicode BiDi (was Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos)

2003-10-08 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Eran Tromer wrote on 2003-10-08: > As you note, your algorithm is incompatible with Unicode's. > All means are valid for converting legacy text, but there's a strong > case for insisting that all newly created text must be rendered > correctly by the standard algorithm. > > This, of course, leaves

Re: UTR#9 - Unicode BiDi (was Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos)

2003-10-08 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/10/08 19:58, Ehud Karni wrote: This is a known issue with Unicode BiDi. It arises because we use the - character for both minus and hyphen. When one wants to connects letters with numbers one is using a HYPHEN and wants it to appear as 5-word. When one wants to write a negative number one u

UTR#9 - Unicode BiDi (was Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos)

2003-10-08 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 15:01:04 +0200, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eran Tromer wrote: > > > OOe 1.1 seems to have the usual hebrew-hyphen-number problem > > ("H-5" renders as "H5-"), which necessitates typing of the logically > > incorr