[FriBidi] Implementation of X6 in the FriBidi library

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Mon Sep 28 13:57:16 PDT 2009


> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:58:12 -0400
> From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
> CC: fribidi at lists.freedesktop.org
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the issue you are raising completely.  However, I 
> think it's a non-issue since BN characters are conceptually removed in X9, so 
> it doesn't matter.

It does matter in an implementation that retains the format codes
instead of removing them, according to section 5.2 of UAX#9.

> However, there is a change around these rules coming in 
> the next update to UAX#9 that explicitly supports the code as is, see:
> 
>    http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-20.html
> 
> Does that address your concern?

Yes, thank you.


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