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Subject: Re: [9fans] bidi
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:07:59 +0000
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> > (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.