On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Richard Wordingham
wrote:
> Expanding on Mark's answer, the basic difference is whether a character
> of Bidi class ET (percentage-type and currency symbols) when stored
> before or after European or Persian etc. digits goes to their left or
> right. For Arabic,
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:35:48 -0700
"Doug Ewell" wrote:
> UAX #44, Table 13 ("Bidi_Class Values") includes the following
> descriptions:
>
> R - Right_To_Left - any strong right-to-left (non-Arabic-type)
> character AL - Arabic_Letter - any strong right-to-left (Arabic-type)
> character
>
> But
The difference between them is subtle (and I've long been convinced that
having the distinction was a mistake, but that's water under the bridge).
It is in their effect on European numbers that occur after them, in
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#W2 (and following).
Mark
*— Il meglio è l’inim
UAX #44, Table 13 ("Bidi_Class Values") includes the following
descriptions:
R - Right_To_Left - any strong right-to-left (non-Arabic-type) character
AL - Arabic_Letter - any strong right-to-left (Arabic-type) character
But I can't find any definition, here or elsewhere, of what constitutes
an "A
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