[Fribidi-discuss] Some thoughts about BiDi Quirks Handling

[Omer Zak]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

[... snipped ...]

> > But then, what about Wine? What about OpenOffice? What about Mozilla
> > (actually, I think they are using their own algorithm already)? What
> > about QT KWord? What about Pango?
> 
> OTOH: with the other options: someone needs to insert explicit bidi
> overrides. Otherwise the text will look incorrect once copied to any other
> program that is not aware of its quirk origin.

The above answers the following.

> But why should abiword care about the history of the paragraph? Why should
> some text behave differently if it came from a different origin? What
> happenes if you copy a text from a "normal" paragraph to a "quirk"
> paragraph?

Bear in mind that a single paragraph would not be a problem to hand-edit
so that it'll be rendered correctly using a proper implementation of the
Unicode BiDi algorithm.

But consider a 1000 page long document, which is compilation of chapters
from various sources (and for the sake of argument, let's assume that the
chief editor cannot dictate to the individual authors which word processor
to use to write their contributions).

                                             --- Omer
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