I've been wondering lately about the usage of personal marks like signatures in other cultures and writing systems. I'm aware of the Chinese usage of seal...
Hi, I am fleshing out a small page on bidi and I would like to list scripts and languages written in scripts that are bidi. I would appreciate your help in...
... Thaana is the script, Dhivehi is the language, the Maldives is the country. ... That's Javanese written in the Arabic script. ... The language is called...
* Tex Texin ... In that case you may find this page helpful: <URL: http://www.ontopia.net/i18n/direction.jsp?id=rtl > ... The page above lists rather more. The...
... What is "bidi"? ... Thaana is the script of the Divehi (Maldives) languages. Jawi is a variety of Indonesian script. ... That depends entirely on what you...
Peter, bidi (or BiDi) is short for bidirectional. For Syriac, I was asking in a very oblique way if Syriac is a script, language or both. It was suggested to...
... Additional ones written in Iran in the Arabic script: Azeri/Azerbaijani (which I personally prefer to call Iranian Turkic), and Turkmen. ... We call the...
... So you're asking about boustrophedon writing? or what? ... On what grounds? There are three different standardized scripts used for Syriac, Assyrian is a...
I am collecting the info on bidi, for the following faq, which will be posted here: http://www.w3.org/International/questions.html I would be glad for your...
... Why do you call them "bidi(rectional)"? Scripts, per se, are right-to-left: they become "bidi" only when they are mixed with words written in other ...
Marco Cimarosti
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Jul 30, 2003 4:19 pm
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... No they aren't! ... No they aren't! ... It doesn't include information about scripts. Have you tried www.rosettaproject.org, which includes many scanned ...
Tifinar is another bidi. Tamashek is the language. Used (very slightly now) by the (decreasingly) nomadic Tuareg in Mali, Algeria, and Sudan. gabriella ...
Peter, thanks for your comments and the link. I'll pursue it. As for bidi being a lame name, all I can say is I didn't make it up. I do see the confusion with...
... This only applies to computer character sets, such as Unicode, where digits in numbers are always encoded with most-significant digit first. But, in...
Marco Cimarosti
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Jul 30, 2003 4:58 pm
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If 'bidi' means RTL, I can think of an African script. The Mende Kikakui Syllabary (devised ca. 1917) of southern and eastern Sierra Leone is written RTL....
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Jul 30, 2003 5:01 pm
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... Here are my comments on your unclassifieds. I'm posting them here in case there is disagreement: Alaska script: looks suspiciously like pictograms to me,...
... Indeed. We should rightly speak not of bidirectional scripts (still less bidirectional languages) but of bidirectional rendering, and which scripts (and,...
* Tex Texin ... * Peter T. Daniels ... It's generally used as an abbreviation for the issues relating to the formatting of bidirectional text, that is, when...
... Now as far as I had been informed, bidi was a matter of encoding and text rendering, such that a document containing both LtR and RtL scripts could be ...
... Why so? It has vowel letters and consonant letters, it's just that it orders them VCVC... and pronounces them CVCV.... -- Her he asked if O'Hare Doctor...
... My Arabic teacher says that he always writes number LTR, guessing in advance how much space will be required for he number. But, then, he is a Moroccan, ...
Marco Cimarosti
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Jul 30, 2003 5:59 pm
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... Interesting! What is the convention of modern standard Arabic? For example, if the number is written out in words, how is it written out? -- John Cowan...
thanks for all the comments. It makes sense to me to reserve "bidi" to describe the type of rendering needed and not to use it as an adjective for the script. ...
... There are no Hebrew digits (except for the old use of letters as digits, still used in lists and such). European digits are used in the usual way. -- John...
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