Re: bidi scripts and languages

From: Lars Marius Garshol
Message: 1523
Date: 2003-07-30

* Tex Texin
|
| Perhaps "bidi" is only used by programmers and it doesn't show up in
| language discussions?

* Peter T. Daniels
|
| It's used by programmers? What does it mean to them?

It's generally used as an abbreviation for the issues relating to the
formatting of bidirectional text, that is, when LTR and RTL text occur
in the same paragraph of text.

The best description of the process by which this formatting happens
is <URL: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-11.html >, but be
warned that this is very heavy reading.

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Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net >
GSM: +47 98 21 55 50 <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >

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