Re: UTR#9 - Unicode BiDi (was Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos)

> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:01:55 -0400
> From: Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>
> >
> > I guess we will need to get used to type RLM and LRM in similar
> > situations, since we must be UAX#9 compliant, and since UAX#9 results
> > in such madness in quite a few cases like this, sigh.
> 
> I guess you know the answer:  Use U+2010 HYPHEN instead of U+002D
> HYPHEN-MUNUS.

I don't think we can ask the user to type that character instead of
the ASCII dash: users are used to hit the dash key on their keyboards.

We should probably have some simple key sequence to produce RLM and
LRM, though, or else we have the same problem: too much to type to get
the right result.