Re: harakat and binary storage

[Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org>]

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:05:01AM +0200, Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:
> On 7/12/05, Haisam K. Ido <haisam at ido dot org> wrote:
> 
> > in utf-8 does the haraka come before or after the letter?
> 
> After, if the text is typed correctly ;)
> 
> > Also is the binary code stored right-to-left or left to right?
> 
> This is irrelevant from the Logic point of view. RTL or LTR are just
> the way the text is shown.
> 

I can say that the binary code for the letter "when stored in a file or in the memory without applying any bidi or shaping algorithm" comes _before_ the harakat.
Actually I believe that it's still before even when applying a shaping or bidi algorithm ;)

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