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From: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bidi
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:43:00 -0500
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If I remember correctly some languages use both l-r (for numbers for
example) and r-l (for the rest).

Thanks,
	Lucho

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:07:59PM +0000, rog@vitanuova.com said:
> > > (against, say,
> > > having a heuristic to determine directionality for the whole
> > > of a window)?
> > 
> > 1) It is not a heuristic, it is a setting. One does have now
> > this setting, it has one value - ltr. It should be possible to
> > add the other one, rtl.
> 
> i guess i was imagining that rather than have bidi implemented as per
> the spec, with different directions in each paragraph, each line, etc,
> one could just do a version that looked at the characters being
> displayed, and decided on directionality for the entire window (but
> automatically, so it would try and do the "right" thing)
> 
> much simpler...  but might be insufficient for normal usage; i dunno.