* Lars Marius Garshol | | Thank you very much for this. This kind of succinct no-nonsense | summary is worth its weight in gold. (Collecting the same | information through the normal sources might easily consume weeks.)
* Deborah Goldsmith | | Hmmm. Since it was sent electronically, I'm not quite sure what its | weight in gold would be. :-) I'm convinced that it's low enough that I can afford it, which is the main thing. :-) * Lars Marius Garshol | | It would be nice to know what this means in term of the rendering | API. Is it possible to display RTL scripts without having the display | system reverse the text? I hope it is, since without this capability | proper bidi support is near-impossible to achieve. * Deborah Goldsmith | | By default, RTL scripts are displayed in compliance with the Unicode | bidirectional algorithm. Ouch. That may work in some situations, but for a web browser that can never work, since the display mechanism will never have enough information to do this correctly. (Yeah, I'm taking a very narrow view of this, I know.) | It is of course possible to override this through use of directional | override characters. That might be one approach, but modifying every buffer before it goes to the display is one complication it would be nice to be able to avoid. | It's also possible to use advanced APIs to disable bidi processing. This sounds like a more appealing option. Do you have more detail on what this involves? Is there an extra method call for turning it off or a flag that must be set, or does it require the use of a different API for rendering? -- Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net > ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >
