Re: Unicode 4.01 bidi type changes

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:

> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> >
> Perhaps that's really what they expect.  It's not going to happen
> however (I've yet to see a programm or language that will eat it in
> a number).  :-[[
>
> >>     This is a **really big change**.  I suppose every third big RTL
> >>     text out there will be affected.
> >
> > Unfortunately you are right.  And worse is that it takes a
> > century for all software around to be updated.  Hopefully Pango
> > will incorporate this in the next release, but don't ask about
> > KDE, Mozilla, OO.o, blah blah...
> >
> It seems that adding extra RLMs/LRMs near these chars would be a good
> idea for the transition period (*cough* several years *cough*)...

But then no program can eat the LRM as numercial data.  And
worse, since it's transparent, it takes an hour *for an expert*
to find out why copy/paste'ing the number does not work. :(

--behdad
  behdad.org