A while back Apple asked me to improve the Arabic system font in Mac OS X (which is now available in OS X 10.6). The requirements were daunting to say the least. The font had to support the full Unicode Arabic range, presentation forms and all. This meant adding some 1500 glyphs to my font [...]
For years I have been trying to explain to anyone who would listen that the Unicode Bidi Algorithm has a fundamental flaw. The problem was that I did not have strong practical examples… and then along came Twitter.
My complaint is that Unicode bidi considers most characters that are not letters or numbers as neutrals and, [...]
At the 33rd Unicode Conference I gave a presentation around the problems I encountered in my previous post Mashing Up Bidi. Here are the summary and slides:
Mashing-up Bi-Di
Mash-ups is a relatively new fashionable word on the Web - taking bits of other web sites to build up your own web page. It is not new [...]
