Hi, > To me, 'visual order' means in the dominant order of the script.
This is not a definition I've come across anywhere else, nor matches my intuition of "visual order" : the exact visual order (recursive definition, yay!) of how you see the glyphs being displayed in the row. > So, > if one takes it as natural that a decimal number starts with the most > significant digits, the decimal numbers used with Arabic are *not* > stored in visual order if considered as part of that script. The visual order is: You get the string rendered properly. You scan with your eyes in one strict direction, and take note of what you see in that order. For example, let's say: "Hello Shalom" (the latter word in Hebrew): HELLO שָׁלוֹם The logical order: H E L L O space שָׁ ל וֹ ם The visual order, from left to right is: H E L L O space ם וֹ ל שָׁ Similarly, the visual order from right to left (a much more rarely seen concept, the exact reverse of the visual LTR order) is: שָׁ ל וֹ ם space O L L E H "Visual order" most of the time means "visual left to right order", although strictly speaking, "visual right to left order" is just as much a visual order. This is all independent from the script's dominant order. > "In combination with the following rule, this means that trailing > whitespace will appear at the visual end of the line (in the paragraph > direction)." > > The 'visual end' is clearly not always the right-hand end! Yes, that's right. (And it doesn't contradict the definition of "visual order". For RTL paragraphs, those trailing whitespaces appear at the beginning of the "visual LTR order"). e.
