Re: "Difficult Characters" draft

Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Fri, 02 May 1997 19:15 UTC

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> Other issues:
> The bidi issues for RLT languages in conjunction with
> normal punctuation used in and around identifiers. (Will
> the identifiers present themselves 'correctly' without
> these characters in all cases?)

When you type Hebrew and enter:

   "http://host.il/WERBEH/DROW"

(HEBREW WORD), might some typing software add direction markers
and some other typing software leave it out?

Larry