[FriBidi] Attributed unicode

[Behnam Esfahbod]

Robin,

Why don't you track the position of your target (the CAPITAL LETTER I here)
via the log2vis mapping that most bidi implementations, including FriBidi,
provide?


-Behnam


On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:13 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:

> Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I would like to know if
> there's a way to attach attributes (eg colour) to the unicodes that enter
> the fribidi api. In the reportlab case we allow rather arbitrary changes to
> the unicode strings that represent text eg
>
> paragraph('<span color="red" fontSize="14">I</span>n the beginning.......
>
> where the initial capital I is larger and a different colour.
>
> If this happened in a word that I want to pass to fribidi is there a way
> to see where the attributes change in the return from fribidi? I imagine
> this must be an issue in html rendering as well.
>
> I looked at various unicode mechanisms (eg variation sequences), but none
> seem appropriate to changes of font, size, weight, style or colour.
> --
> Robin Becker
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