Re: Unicode 4.01 bidi type changes

Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:19:32 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.internationalization.fribidi
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Eran Tromer wrote:

> Hi,

Hi,

First of all, welcome all to the new list.  I'm writing another
mail explaining the recent changes.  I will get out today.  Stay
tunned.

> Unicode 4.01 changed the type of HYPHEN-MINUS and PLUS from ET to ES,
> and changed the type of SOLIDUS (slash) from ES to CS:
>   http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.1/
>   http://www.unicode.org/Public/4.0-Update1/UnicodeData-4.0.1.txt
> You can diff the latter against:
>   http://www.unicode.org/Public/4.0-Update/UnicodeData-4.0.0.txt
>
> Does this affect Fribidi?

Yes.  We will make a maintenance release to bring 4.0.1 data in
action.

> Is this likely to affect rendering of existing texts?

Unfortunately yes :(.  I tried my best to prevent the change, but
apparently couldn't.

>   Eran

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