Just in case somebody has missed this:
There is a public review issue very much related to this thread:
http://www.unicode.org/review/pri205/, Proposed addition of AL MARK
and LEVEL DIRECTION MARK,
<http://www.unicode.org/review/pri205/pri205-background.html>.
The latter proposed addition is partially motivated by date format
direction issues.
/Kent K
Den 2011-10-17 13:00, skrev "Eli Zaretskii" <e...@gnu.org>:
>> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:09:06 +0100
>> From: "Peter Krefting" <pe...@opera.com>
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>:
>>
>>> However, it could be that the confusion is mine, and it stems from the
>>> fact that the logical order of these characters was not stated by the
>>> OP. Is it
>>>
>>> 1999/12/31
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> 31/12/1999
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> The logical order in the document that was cited is 1999/12/31
>> (١٩٩٩/١٢/٣١). I just did a pen-and-paper run of the bi-di algorithm, and
>> it does look to me as if the 1999/12/31 rendering is the correct one, even
>> with the paragraph set to right-to-left in HTML.
>
> If the logical order is 1999/12/31, then you are right. I'm sorry for
> confusion I caused; for some reason I thought the logical order was
> the other way around.
>
> Sorry.
>
