On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:54:02PM +0100, Richard Wordingham wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:21:32 +0200 (CEST) > Marcel Schneider <charupd...@orange.fr> wrote: > > > On 22 Jul 2015, at 09:52, Richard Wordingham wrote: > > > We never thought of common hieroglyphs otherwise as running LTR, > > while on monuments the great liberty of the script allows to run in > > amost all directions. IMO monumental transcription is always > > difficult to deal with, whenever exact rendering is expected. > > However, since Unicode's purpose is plain text encoding, we must > > stick with what I consider as a convention in egyptology... > > Which means that Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are unencoded! Their > default direction is right-to-left, but that's only the start of the > trouble. The encoded hieroglyphs aren't Bidi-mirrored, so if I embed > then in a right-to-left override, I should get retrograde characters.
At least in OpenType, you can have mirrored glyphs in the font (which you will need in any case) and use a “rtlm” feature which should be applied when the text is being typeset right-to-left (naturally or forced). Regards, Khaled
