Re: UAX #9: applicability of higher-level protocols to bidi plaintext

[Asmus Freytag via Unicode]

I would say the problem lies in the attempt to exchange arbitrary raw data and expect perfectly compatible rendering. In the absence of very explicit markup there's simply no expectation that all users see precisely the same thing. Editors for plain text will wrap or not wrap lines on presentation, for example, and if they do, the wrapping may depend on the width of the window. The bidi case is just another such case where you cannot expect any fidelity in presentation whatsoever. (And certainly not in the case of degenerate files containing all but one weak character). A./