BidiMirrored property and ancient scripts (Was Re: Plain text custom fraction input)

[Richard Wordingham]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:42:50 +0100
Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> If the hieroglyphs had had the BidiMirrored property corrected to Yes,
> one could have had, in plain text, once fonts had caught up:
> 
> <U+132B9 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH R008> for nṯr in normal left-to-right
> text <U+202B RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING, U+132B9, U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL
> FORMATTING> for nṯr in retrograde left-to-right text
> 
> and embed whole paragraphs in <U+202B>...<U+202C> for right-to-left
> text.

Correction: Use U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE, not U+202B!

Richard.