On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> Takahashi-san, first and foremost thank you again for your help and
> interest in Arabic and the various issues there-in.A couple of
> things;
>
> 1. I'm attaching a very simple patch against what's currently hanging
> of the FTP site that makes some minor modifications and corrects
> a couple of encodings - do please apply it.
>
> 2. Regarding the "simplified" Bidi, could I suggest the following
> rather simple addition. Pseudo-code would get the point across
> simpler.
>
> if ( first_char_is_RTL )
> Assume entire line is Right-To-Left
> else
> /* default */
> Assume entire line is Left-To-Right
Generally, it would be best to reorder paragraphs rather than lines.
Reordering lines wil give some strange results in case a line in the
middle of a paragraph happens to start with a character of the "other"
directionality (e.g: a number or english letter in the middle of a hebrew
paragraph).
Also note that you should generally scan the {line|paragraph|whatever} for
the first char that has strong "directionality".
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir at technion dot ac dot il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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