On 5/4/2015 6:47 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:31:47 -0700
"Asmus Freytag (t)" <asmus-...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
But permit me to ask one question up front. What would be served by
making such a sweeping change at this juncture, after 25 years of
established practice?
I suspect the idea is to have a way of unobtrusively supplying the
Bidi_Mirrored value in a character pick-list, namely the use of the
words 'OPENING' and 'CLOSING' rather than 'LEFT' and 'RIGHT'.
Reading this discussion, I sometimes wonder whether people have ever
heard of character properties? They were invented, because it proved
impossible (infeasible?) to cram all the useful information about a
character into its name. If you look in the Unicode Character Database,
you'll find a lot of useful properties, among them, the information on
which bracket characters are paired, and which one is the
opening/closing one in the pair.
As I dimly recall the use of ']a, b[' to denote an open interval, the
proposed solution is not complete, but the complete solution is not
obvious to me.
Right. There are many conventions for the use of characters. The period
is another example of a character used for many purposes...
No way to pack all the information into the name, and even character
properties aren't covering all of them.
I for one don't want to have to choose a non-English
locale to type right-to-left text.
Non-sequitur?
A./
