Protocol-08 (and status of Defs-04 and Rationale-06)

Eric Brunner-Williams ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net
Tue Dec 9 15:37:02 CET 2008



Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
>>>           Alright, that is what has been proposed so far. *But* we 
>>> now need
>>> to take into account Harald's reminder that some combinations
>>> are already disallowed separately by the bidi rules on label
>>> well-formedness, quite independently of any consideration of
>>> CONTEXTO categorization. What the bidi rules require of label
>>> formation is:
>>>
>>> Bidi:     Forbid (d) and (f) [and (g) by corollary]. Allow (e).
>>>       
>>
>> Could you point out the lines in bidi you are referring to here?
>>
>>   
> Section 2 rule 5:
>
>   5.  If an EN is present, no AN may be present, and vice versa.
>
>
>                      Harald

Thank you. I thought that was the case. Now where is the rational for 
the rule?

Eric


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