Re: Unicode 4.01 bidi type changes
Beni Cherniavsky <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.internationalization.fribidi |
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| 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. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[email protected]> Note: I can only read email on week-ends...