Thanks for admitting this. But I used an informal adjective on purpose, to avoid having to display any numeric statistics.
But even in this case is is very clear that this is **much** less than 50%, rather than just "less than 50%" which gives an extreme upper bound (that one coud think probable). Even in the case of digits+letters, this will likely concerns only measurement (including dates and time stamps) and it will remain rare to find these using Euro-Arabic digits associated with Arabic or Hebrew letters without an intermediate directionnally weak space. As soon as there will be some space (or hyphen, sjamsh or punctuation) separation between the numeric value and the Hebrew/Arabic word or abbreviation, the editor behavior does not need to use dual carets. In addition, most measurements should use international unit symbols which are not written with RTL letters. Anyway, such specification describing the problem more compltely should be documented in the UBA, explaining the recommanded solution for the case of caret positioning and visual hints about the direction of insertion. The use of carets showing the direction explicitly will also help, even if only one caret is needed in most cases (leaving the case with two caret positions to the "very" infrequent case of a position between strong-RTL and strong-LTR spans). 2012/11/13 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> > > From: Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> > > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:35:03 +0100 > > Cc: UnicoDe List <[email protected]> > > > > This case remains very infrequent: it is extremely rare to start typing > > text in the middle between RTL and LTR text. Usually typing occurs at end > > of a paragraph, and most paragraphs use a single direction and when you > > have to insert new text in the middle of a paragraph, this is extremely > > rarely between a visual-LTR sequence and a viual RTL sequence (I think > the > > most frequent case will occur between digits and letters/symbols, in > cases > > like currency amounts or measurements). > > If by "rare" you mean less than 50%, then I agree. But this case is > frequent enough to annoy. And yes, making changes between letters and > digits is by far the most frequent situation where this happens. >
