[NTG-context] Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > Luatex does not mirror characters that has a Bidi_Mirrored property when
> > the text direction is set to RTL (TRT in Aleph), according to 
> > http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Mirroring, the different types of
> > parenthesis that has Bidi_Mirrored property should be mirreored in RTL
> > mode, but this isn't what I get. Is this a bug, feature, or am I missing
> > some thing?
> 
> experimental in the beta
> 
> \setcharactermirroring[1]

It does work perfectly with unidirectional texts (RTL or LTR), but when
mixing bi-directional text, like Arabic text between brackets inside
English line, the closing bracket takes the direction of the embedded
text not the main line.
See the attached example.

Regards,
 Khaled

> 
> no high level interface yet, i need to think of how to do such things as 
> efficient as possible and prevent interference with font features and 
> such (currently it's an attribute handler that pops in quite early)
> 
> 
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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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