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The Unicode Technical Committee has revised Public Review Issue #80,  
including the background document, and issued another proposed update of  
UAX #9.

Details are on this page:

	http://www.unicode.org/review/

The closing date for this issue has been revised to January 30, 2006.

Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
Briefly, the issue is:



80  	 Proposed Update to UAX #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm

The Unicode Bidi algorithm has allowed for a great deal of flexibility in  
determining which characters are to be mirrored (see HL6  
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-16.html#HL6). Unfortunately, that  
means that text that originates with one person may show up with the wrong  
graphic to another, thus causing the text to be misinterpreted. The  
proposal is to tighten up conformance by eliminating overriding of bidi  
mirroring, and at the same time extending the characters with the  
Bidi_Mirrored property.

The UTC would like public feedback on whether to make this change, and  
which characters should have the Bidi_Mirrored property. The proposed  
change is to retain the set of characters currently having Bidi_Mirrored  
property, and add some additional characters with similar properties. For  
further information and character lists, see the background document for  
this issue.



If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by  
submitting your comments through our feedback & reporting page:

    http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html

If you wish to discuss issues on the Unicode mail list, then please
use the following link to subscribe (if necessary). Please be aware
that discussion comments on the Unicode mail list are not automatically
recorded as input to the UTC. You must use the reporting link above
to generate comments for UTC consideration.

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Regards,
	Rick McGowan
	Unicode, Inc.


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