On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 21:01:30 -0700 Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> On 7/17/2019 6:03 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: >> A significant issue is that the hieratic script is right to left but >> Unicode only standardises the encoding of left-to-right >> transcriptions. I don't recall the difference between retrograde v. >> normal text being declared a style difference. > Use directional overrides. Those have been in the standard forever. How do they help distinguish normal right-to-left text and right-to-left retrograde text? As I understand it, the implementer has to guess which way characters in an ancient script face when the direction of the text is overridden. Unicode used to define the orientation, but that got withdrawn a few years ago. Richard.
