The UNIDATA Directory
The UNIDATA folder on the Unicode FTP/Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) is the official repository of the Unicode Character Database. Here's a quick rundown of what's in this directory:
ArabicShaping.txt groups Arabic and Syriac letters into categories depending on how they connect to their neighbors. The data in this file can be used to put together a minimally correct implementation of Arabic and Syriac character shaping.
BidiMirroring.txt is useful for implementing a rudimentary version of mirroring. For the characters whose glyphs in right-to-left text are supposed to be the mirror image of their glyphs in left-to-right text (the characters with the “mirrored” property), this file identifies those that ...
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