On 03/07/09 03:34, bill lam wrote:
>
> On Thu, 02 Jul 2009, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>> I have never understood why people put the text in the wrong order in
>> the file and then change the order when displaying it. The characters
>> should be in the file in the order they are displayed.
>
> IIUC that is what bidi mean. The text is in 'correct order' but
> displayed as bidi. eg. numbers are ltr in arabic, in order to write
> the sentence 'year2009' in arabic on a piece of paper,
> (pretending letters in arabic)
> y
> ey
> aey
> raey
> (jump some space before writing number)
> 2 raey
> 20 raey
> 200 raey
> 2009raey
>
Well, I thought Bram meant that che characters should be in the file in
the order
2
0
0
9
<space>
r
a
e
y
if it's a "LTR file", and in the order
y
e
a
r
<space>
9
0
0
2
if it's a "RTL file" (more probable for Arabic).
The Unicode standard (with which I agree for reasons outlined in my
previous post, and I think you do too), is that they MUST be in the order
y
e
a
r
<space>
2
0
0
9
at least in a Unicode file. (IIUC, some legacy encodings may require one
of the other two).
Best regards,
Tony.
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