Re: UTF-8 support needs implementing to fix all bidi/rtl/ltr issues

[Ted Walther]

Here is the lilypond file:

  http://hymns.reactor-core.org/HaikVantoura/Shema4.ly

It produces this output:

  http://hymns.reactor-core.org/HaikVantoura/Shema4.pdf

But I should be able to use the unicode codes referenced previously to
make the output look like this:

  http://hymns.reactor-core.org/HaikVantoura/Shema4.1.pdf

Ted

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:12:45PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On 2009-12-03, Ted Walther wrote:
> > I was really happy to see UTF-8 support in Lilypond.  Is there any
> > possibility of getting the following codes supported?
> >
> > U+200E
> > U+200F
> > U+202A
> > U+202B
> > U+202C
> > U+202D
> > U+202E
> >
> > Proper support for them would clear up all rtl/ltr bidrectionality issues.
> >
> > Documentation on what those codes mean and how to support them is
> > outlined here in the official spec:
> >
> >     http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> Can you send a small LilyPond input file to the list that demonstrates
> the problems you are experiencing?  It's not clear to me how to
> reproduce this right now, since I don't know what fonts you are using.
>
> -Patrick

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