[Fribidi-discuss] Some thoughts about BiDi Quirks Handling

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi Dov,

Comments below:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Dov Grobgeld wrote:

> Hi Behdad and everyone else,
> 
> First of all I must say that I agree with you that I don't think
> that we should have any MicroSoft quirks hardcoded in the fribidi
> core itself. Giving an API through which it is possible to change
> the BiDi classification of any characters sounds very reasonable 
> though. Could someone knowledgable explain if that is enough to
> support the various historical M$ behaviours?
> 
> Regarding the support of different encodings, I sent a suggestion
> a while ago that the only place that should need modification is
> at the entry point to the algorithm in fribidi_analyse_string(). 
> Appearently I had missed though that the FribidiChar type is queried
> later on in the algorithm, but Behdad wrote that might be
> solved by adding another flag in the bitfield currently used to 
> hold the character properties. If this is this what you are planning 
> to do, Behdad, then I don't understand where you would need the
> macros?

I really don't *need* them;  I want them there to be able to skip 
the 1, 2, 4 suffix.  Then just fribidi_log2vis(str, ...) will 
work on strings of different types.

> Regards,
> Dov

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