On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > To study about BiDi, is the following document enough, or do you > have some recommendation? (though I have not read the document yet). > > Unicode Standard Annex #9 The Bidirectional Algorithm > http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/
This only provides the basics. When you get to terminals, things get a lot darker. There is an ECMA standard on this, which is much older than Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm, and provides another perspective: http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/TECHREP/E-TR-053.HTM The best place for discussing this should be linux-utf8, ivrix, and arabeyes mailing lists... roozbeh