Difference between EN and AN (Re: Follow-up to Monday's discussion of digits)
Harald Alvestrand
harald at alvestrand.no
Fri Nov 28 12:50:19 CET 2008
According to my stability calculator:
the string "L L AN" is unstable according to -bidi, because in the
context CS L L AN CS R (left-to-right context), it resequences in the
order 1 2 3 6 5 4 , or CS L L R CS AN.
Thus, the label "ab<arabic 1>", followed by a label containing "<arabic
letter>", will exhibit surprising behaviour - the number will jump over
the dot.
the string "L L EN" exhibits no such behaviour.
I think that's the reason why -bidi currently prohibits mixing L with AN.
Harald
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