[FriBidi] bidi mirror

[Dov Grobgeld]

Unfortunately fribidi isn't Unicode 6.3 complient yet.

You may want to test the following branch and see if it makes a difference:

https://github.com/dov/fribidi/tree/unicode63

But I'm in doubt as we have not yet implemented the N0 rule of the
Unicode6.3 standard, which seems to be relevant to your problem. It is
still (unfortunately far too slow) work in progress.

Regards,
Dov


On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Eduardo Castiñeyra <
eduardo at brainstorm3d.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 3/28/2017 7:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> Consider this level 0 text:
>>>
>>> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/bidi.jsp?a=sample+%28text%29&p=LTR
>>>
>>> Then, we change the Paragraph direction in the drop down from LTR to RTL
>>>
>>> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/bidi.jsp?a=sample+%28text%29&p=RTL
>>>
>>> Suddenly, all the L0 become L2 except the last parenthesis and thus, the
>>> reordered view shows the parenthesis at the beginning.
>>>
>> That page says "Not yet updated for the changes in Unicode 6.3!",
>> which means the Bidirectional Parentheses Algorithm (BPA) is not
>> accounted for.  The BPA causes the text to be rendered reasonably,
>> with parentheses mirrored as expected.  E.g., try that in a recent
>> enough Emacs.
>>
>> I think I didn't ask the correct question. The problem is not the
> parenthesis not flipping but the fact that the last parenthesis level is
> odd, which causes:
>
> 1) The parenthesis being shown at the beginning of the sentence.
> 2) fribidi_shape_mirroring flipping the parenthesis when it shouldn't
>
> So, in this regard I actually cannot complain about the behavior of
> fribidi_shape_mirroring, in any case I should complain about
> fribidi_log2vis but I don't think it is doing anything different that what
> the BiDi algorithm says. I just would like to know how to prevent this case.
>
> I have compared MS Notepad in Windows 10 and Windows 7 (pre-U6.3) and
> you're right, Windows 7 puts the parenthesis at the beginning and Windows
> 10 puts it at the end which is consistent with the Unicode 6.3 explanation
> but...
>
> What about Fribidi? Doesn't it implement U6.3 ? Why am I seeing the
> parenthesis also at the beginning in my application ?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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