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. >