Re: Unicode text Direction Detection

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

Gaurav Jain wrote:
> Could you give me some tips on how to go about implementing a "naive"
> version of such an algorithm?  Suppose I have a unicode character,
> what's the simplest way to know if it is a LTR directional character
> or a RTL directional character?

Try http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/ucdata.html. That will give you a simple 
implementation for testing character properties (RTL, LTR, etc.).
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