> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:28:50 -0700 > From: Asmus Freytag <asm...@ix.netcom.com> > CC: k...@unicode.org, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, > James Clark <j...@jclark.com>, > unicode Unicode Discussion <unicode@unicode.org> > > On 4/23/2014 7:37 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > Thanks for the clear reply, now I know that my example in a prior > > message would work appropriately with UBA: > > > > This is an [«] ARABIC EXAMPLE [»] for demonstration only. > > > > Because: > > - the opening guillemet is not stripped out of the context stack when > > the first closing bracket is matched with the first opening bracket, > This is _*incorrect*_, see the text in blue/bold in the definition > copied below. > The second bullet in item 3 of the second second-level bullet of the > third top-level bullet of BD16 clearly says that all elements that are > above the matched element are popped together with it. > > - later the closing guillemet matches the opening guillemet remaining > > on the stack, > No, this is_*incorrect*_, because the stack has been popped.
Indeed. In addition, assuming that by "guillemets" Philippe means U+00AB and U+00BB, they cannot possibly form a bracketed pair, because their General Category is not Ps and Pe. For that reason, you will never find them in BidiBrackets.txt. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode