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== Bi-directional text ==
I'm surprised to see no mention of right-to-left or bi-directional text in the task description. If this is really about 'internationalization' then being able to cope with these is as important as being able to render Unicode characters (if not more so); it's certainly more challenging! If this isn't thought to be an appropriate task to investigate those language capabilities perhaps there should be a new one. [[User:RichardRussell|RichardRussell]] 22:36, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
It's not clear that that's a programming language issue. Consider, for example, a programming language which runs on a variety of hardware, and hosted by a variety of operating systems and using a variety of display mechanics. If the programming language is displaying text via a web browser, for example, then the issue of text rendering is a browser issue. If the programming language is displaying text via a java app (for portability) then this becomes a java issue. If the programming language is displaying text via gtk, then this becomes a gtk issue. And so on... --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 02:57, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
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