Re: Unicode 4.01 bidi type changes

Beni Cherniavsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.internationalization.fribidi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 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. :(
> 
It's a tough world :-(.  You have a point.  Perhaps it's not a good idea 
after all.

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