saqqara wrote:
....
Nevertheless there is a case (however strong or weak) for Unicode admitting
mirroring and simple rotation transformations. The phenomenon not only
occurs in some ancient scripts but also in modern Latin usage, most notably
in advertising. The fact that Old Latin already requests a glyph
transformation according to bidi context supports the view this is not
entirely inconsistent with Unicode philosophy.
Mirroring (sometimes horizontal, sometimes vertical) occurs occasionally in some Tibetan texts - and where it occurs it is significant to the meaning of the text in a symbolic sense. (The text would have a different symbolic meaning if the mirrored Tibetan stack was not mirrored).
- Chris
