Eric Muller wrote: > I believe that the current mirrored and mirrored glyph properties are > useful only when no help can be obtained from the font; otherwise, the > resolved directionality should be provided to the font, which should > then select the appropriate shape for each and every character, > regardless of the mirrored and mirrored glyph properties.
Correct, and this is how the BidiMirroring.txt file is intended: Only if the layout engine+font are not smart enough, as a fallback mechanism. The file itself says: # Note that for "real" mirroring, a rendering engine needs to select # appropriate alternative glyphs, and that many Unicode characters do not # have a mirror-image Unicode character. markus
