> On 3 Aug 2015, at 16:19, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 8/3/2015 3:54 PM, talazem@fastmail.fm wrote:
>> I am having problems with the directionality of numbers and mirrored
>> characters (like parentheses). When using bidi, the numbers are inverted
>> (5102 instead of 2015); with the explicit commands, the mirrored
>> characters are inverted as well.
> 
> we have several approaches:
> 
> the oldest method is based on some heuristics and targets at tex input in the sense that we assume tagging and directional switches
> 
> the other two are unicode bidi based (successive versions and there might be more as that evolves)
> 
> in any case, everything bidi / rl has to fit into some system and that's something idris and i are working on (well, we did at some point but we need to pick up that thread) ... so maybe you can trigger idris into onthology mode and help him
> 
> Hans
> 
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