Chris Jacobs <c dot t dot m dot jacobs at hccnet dot nl> wrote: > If I have a right to left text in unipad and if I use then a UCN \u > notation, then this notation is treated by bidi as left-to right text. > Is this what bidi is supposed to do? I don't like this behavior in > text editors.
Universal Character Names (UCNs) are a popular and effective shorthand notation for representing Unicode characters. A UCN is not, however, "identical" to the character it represents, in the sense that a precomposed character is "identical" to a base character plus combining mark(s). It is an ASCII escape sequence and is treated like any other sequence of ASCII characters. > I would like a right to left char be treated as a right to left char, > even when the char itself is composed of left to right chars. But it's *not* a right-to-left character. It's a sequence of six LTR characters that *represents* a RTL character. Asking a text editor to display the ASCII sequence "\u05c0" as RTL, but to display the ASCII sequences "\x05c0" and "/u05c0" and "\uO5cO" (with capital letters O) and "\u04c0" as LTR, just seems bizarre and would surely be more confusing than the current state of affairs. > If I have in a text editor: > > כי יהוה עי\u05e0יו משטטות בכל הארץ > > then I don't want the text to break. Then you should go ahead and convert the UCN sequence to a real NUN (resulting in כי יהוה עיניו משטטות בכל הארץ). This is supremely easy in UniPad; there's even a toolbar button for it. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
