From: Alistair Vining (alistair.vining@ntlworld.com)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 19:32:58 EDT
Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> I think the first and most important step here is to
> build a very full and descriptive list of all the
> quirks, and hopefully decide what a 100% quirk-free
> bidi algorithm would be. Is the Unicode bidi
> algorithm perfect if everybody implemented it perfectly?
It doesn't really matter if it's ideal, it's the only one we've got ;) But cf.
http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/ucdata.html
> I think I've seen these kinds of quirks in Hebrew with
> hyphens connecting Hebrew endings to English words.
> I got varied results between different Unicode
> editors, mozilla, and IE; and more variation depending on
> whether I used the ASCII hyphen or the special Hebrew
> hyphen. I think World.abw contains this example.
>
> Is this one of the known quirks?
Yes, see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73251 . Summary: Mozilla is
right, IE is wrong ;)
Al.
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