Markus Scherer recently said:
> > David Tooke wrote:
> > The bidirectional algorithm mentions mirrored glyphs. The reference code handles
>them by replacing these characters with their mirror image. Is this the preferred
>method of doing this? If so, is there any where in the Unicode database that
>correlates the two characters?
>
> i have proposed such a database file for consideration by the next utc meeting in
>august. you will find a preliminary version in icu at
>http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/cvs/icu/data/unidata/Mirror.txt
> there is an api in icu that provides this data: u_charMirror(). about icu, see
>http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/
Egyptian hieroglyphs also mirror when going the other way, but I doubt there
will be characters that correspond to the mirrored glyph.
Tim
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