Thank you. Section 3.5 confused me: Shaping, that is selection of cursive-connected shapes, is applied after the UBA reordering. However other character to glyph conversions are applied before it "(taking the embedding levels into account for mirroring)".
>2018-02-26 21:45 GMT+02:00, Ken Whistler <[email protected]>: > On 2/26/2018 7:11 AM, QSJN 4 UKR wrote: >>> The UBA reorders the display order in layout -- not the underlying >>> string. >> What? >> >> UBA reorders characters, not glyphs. > > Actually it does not. The backing order storage of the text is > unaffected. See UAX #9: > > "When working with bidirectional text, the characters are still > interpreted in logical order--only the display is affected." > > And see Section 3.4, Reordering Resolved Levels. The character stream is > mapped onto glyphs *in logical order*.
