Re: Old Italic and Bidi Mirroring

2002-02-02 Thread Asmus Freytag
Found this message in my outbox; just sending this out now for completeness. At 12:47 PM 1/7/02 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: Accordingly, the Old Italic script has a default directionality of strong left-to-right in this standard. When directional overrides are used to produce

Old Italic and Bidi Mirroring

2002-01-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Quoting UAX#27, Unicode 3.1, Section 7.10: Directionality. Most early Etruscan texts have right-to-left directionality. From the third century BCE, left-to-right texts appear, showing the influence of Latin. Oscan, Umbrian, and Faliscan also generally have right-to-left