RE: Display of Mongolian in Arabic or Hebrew documents
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Quoting Peter Constable <[email protected]>: > > In the case of Mongolian, the correct answer for 1 entails that, > when set horizontally, it will display LTR, and that's going to be > the default whether it's embedded in Chinese, Latin, Arabic or > Hebrew. If an app vendor has enough user need for other options, > they may support different layout options. From evidence I've seen, > the need for short vertical runs of Mongolian embedding in > horizontal text is much greater than the need for RTL Mongolian when > embedded in Arabic, but there certainly may be other evidence that > has yet to come to light. > I would say that the default behavior should be that individual Mongonlian words be displayed vertically in horizontal texts, this is the 'normal' way to write them - it is the rendering of Monglian indivual words horizontally that is of itself unconventional. Whether these vertically displayed words go from LTR or RTL is then decided by the script they are embedded in. Such a convention is both very readable and logical. Regards John Knightley > > Peter > > > ------------------------------------------------- This message sent through Virus Free Email http://www.vfemail.net