Re: RFC: keyboard bindings for bidi direction markers

From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 09:53:52 EDT

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    Hi Alan,

    > > In order to provide bidi users with an easy way to override the
    > > > Unicode bidi algorithm (and to fix bug 2742), I am going to
    > > > implement support for the Unicode direction markers (LRM and RLM),
    >
    > What does msword or wordperfect use for this feature (if at all)?

    I do not think that Word provides any such a thing, but then Word
    does not use the Unicode bidi algorithm; it makes all neutral
    characters strong by using the langauge associated with present
    keyboard layout as implicit override, which eliminates the need for
    these markers.

    Tomas

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