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
next prev parent 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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