> Archaic Greek could be written right-to-left, left-to-right, or boustrophedon. > > I'm asking for technical advice as to how such variability in writing > direction streams in the same script can be, and should be, handled in > Unicode, and how it should be dealt with in a Unicode proposal.
TUS 4.0, p. 43 (available online): "The historical directionalities are of interest almost exclusively to scholars intent on reproducing the exact visual content of ancient texts. The Unicode Standard does not provide direct support for them. Fixed texts can, however, be written in boustrophedon or in other directional conventions by using hard line breaks and directionality overrides." That is how it should be handled in Unicode. And there is no point in making a Unicode proposal to do otherwise, as the UTC has shown no interest in treating such multiple directionality layouts as anything other than concerns for higher-level protocols. --Ken
