Re: Bidi edge cases in Hangul and Indic

2018-02-22 Thread David Corbett via Unicode
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 6:32 PM, Ken Whistler wrote: > > If you override the normal left-to-right ordering with bidi override > controls, then the layout order is reversed, but what is actually laid out > is those two glyphs. So you just reverse the order of the two syllables for > display, in

Bidi edge cases in Hangul and Indic

2018-02-22 Thread David Corbett via Unicode
Although the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm clearly defines how to reorder characters in memory, I don’t understand precisely what it means to display one character after another once they’ve been reordered; specifically, when bidi reordering changes the number of user-perceived characters. For