Bidi - BN - clarifying suggestion

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Wed Sep 9 01:41:31 CEST 2009


john,

that is a good point - harald will that work for you?

v

On Sep 8, 2009, at 7:36 PM, John C Klensin wrote:

>
>
> --On Tuesday, September 08, 2009 21:11 +0200 Harald Alvestrand
> <harald at alvestrand.no> wrote:
>
>> I think the smallest possible change that addresses the issue
>> of BN is this:
>>
>> OLD:
>>
>>   o  BN - Boundary Neutral - control characters
>>
>> NEW:
>>
>>   o  BN - Boundary Neutral - control characters, including
>> ZWNJ and ZWJ
>>
>> Those two characters are, AFAIK, the only two BN characters
>> that are allowed by -protocol, so indicating that these two
>> are members of BN should be a sufficient indication of why the
>> class is included in the BIDI algorithm.
>
> I can live with "including...", but this comes _really_ close to
> requiring a change to Bidi if the list in Tables changes.  "For
> example" would make me happier.
>
>    john
>
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