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

[Patrick McCarty]

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