Re: directional marks

nngodinh(at)tiscali(dot)it writes:

> I'm speaking about directional marks that are ignored by - for instance
> - by Microsoft SQL 7.0 because they're unuseful in that position (like when
> they're in a one way text either left-to-right or right-to-left). It may
> happen that this kind of symbols are randomly inserted: for example...

To me this sounds analogous to inserting tons of <space><backspace>
sequences into a string and expecting the software to automatically figure
out that they cancel. It would be possible, but it would probably add a
lot of overhead and it doesn't seem to be requested a lot. The best
solution is probably to fix your data. Unless you can point to a Unicode
standard that states that such cancellation should happen.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net