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Re: harakat and binary storage



On 7/12/05, Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org> wrote:

> 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 ;)

> 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 ;)

Yeah, I meant the haraka is _after_ the letter. You say the letter is
_before_ the haraka.

So we agree :-)

-- 
Youcef R. Rahal