Re: Grapheme cluster boundaries and left-side spacing dependent vowels

James Clark wrote on 04/20/2003 08:39:33 PM:

> As I understand it, grapheme cluster boundaries are supposed to be
> useful for things like cursor movement: a reasonable default action for
> the right arrow key would be to move over one grapheme cluster.  For
> this reason, I wouldn't expect there to be a boundary before a left-side
> dependent vowel: the cursor would have to bounce backwards and forwards
> if there was such a boundary.

The cursor might similarly bounce back and forth in bidi text; if such
behaviour is acceptable for bidi text, might it also be considered
acceptable for Indic-reordering text?



- Peter


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