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From: David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bidi
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:20:37 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403101720.i2AHKbAs099470@adat.davidashen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39d99d2f787453000454954438978993@plan9.escet.urjc.es>

> > What is the point of having full Unicode support in Plan9, if people
> > that use r-l languages cannot use it? How are they supposed to write in
> > these languages if rio/acme doesn't render the text correctly? 
>
> I wouldn't like support for r-l if I don't get also support for t-d (top-down).

Are you aware of languages for which there is support in UCS2 and
which cannot be written either l-r or r-l instead of tb-rl or tb-lr?

For presentation and publishing, vertical writing modes are required
for Japanese, at least. For text display, this is not needed. 

David


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-10 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-09 16:55 [9fans] non-english keyboard? David Tolpin
2004-03-09 17:02 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-09 17:07   ` David Tolpin
2004-03-09 17:12     ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-03-09 17:40     ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-09 18:21       ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-09 18:37         ` [9fans] information <-> knowledge rog
2004-03-09 18:42         ` [9fans] non-english keyboard? David Tolpin
2004-03-09 18:45           ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-09 18:50             ` David Tolpin
2004-03-10  0:04             ` David Presotto
2004-03-09 19:02           ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-03-10  7:36             ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-03-09 19:17           ` 9nut
2004-03-09 20:02             ` [9fans] bidi rog
2004-03-09 20:00               ` David Tolpin
2004-03-09 20:18                 ` rog
2004-03-09 20:29                   ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-03-09 20:39                   ` David Tolpin
2004-03-10 20:54                     ` Derek Fawcus
2004-03-10 21:07                     ` rog
2004-03-10 21:43                       ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-03-10 22:17                         ` 9nut
2004-03-10  1:53                   ` Scott Schwartz
2004-03-10 21:09                     ` rog
2004-03-09 20:24               ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-03-10 15:47                 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-03-10 17:20                   ` David Tolpin [this message]
2004-03-11  1:04                   ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-03-09 23:51           ` [9fans] non-english keyboard? boyd, rounin
2004-03-10  9:47           ` Dave Cummings
2004-03-10 16:04             ` a
2004-03-10 19:45             ` Michael Baldwin
2004-03-09 23:49         ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-10 11:22         ` Aharon Robbins
2004-03-10 16:10           ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-09 23:45   ` boyd, rounin

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