Re: vertical direction control

[Peter Kirk]

On 24/03/2004 08:24, Peter Constable wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk It seems strangely inconsistent to me that Unicode has detailed controls for horizontal layout direction and the complex bidi algorithm, but has nothing for vertical layout. The bidi embedding and overrides are needed to maintain legibility of the text is certain situations. Orientation controls for CJK text are not needed to ensure legibility. For instance, given an encoded sequence < a, b, c, space, D, E, F >, it isn't clear whether it should appear as abc FED or FED abc This kind of problem does not arise in CJK text. The orientation of CJK text is a presentation issue that is out of scope for Unicode. Well, surely there is at least in principle an ambiguity between     D abc E     F and abc  D  E  F -- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.qaya.org/