Hello,
Thanks to Kim Peck (and Michael Everson!) for the lovely text orientations example.
So now the obvious question: does Unicode have a formal plan to expand the bidi
algorithm to cover more text orientation options?
Is it extraordinarily difficult to do this, at the level of a Ph.D. thesis in
algorithms, or is it a simpler problem? A Yiddishist and specialist in algorithms
whom I wrote to said he heard the bidi algorithm is "really hairy."
An H-P interface specialist I met once told me his research group tried to build a
text processor for Hebrew and Chinese because they thought it was the worst possible
combination of languages.
Elaine Keown
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