Hi, Andrew thanks for replying
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Andrew Sullivan
<ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote:
But for the mixed languages case, surely it's not _any_ mixed
language? Are you mixing Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, and Hindi, for
instance?
We're mixing species names of birds in greek and latin (scientific names), and all languages spoken in africa, europe and western asia.
If not, then you're not really language unaware, but instead
constrained by a subset of languages. That is a more tractable
problem (for instance, you may not have to worry about direction
changes, which vastly simplifies the problem).
I'm not very knowledgeable about scripts around the world, but i am afraid that the above list does include scripts that read from right to left.
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