Unicode characters have different properties associated with them. These properties cannot be derived from the code point; you need a table that tells you if a character has a certain property or not. You are interested in characters with bidirectional property “R” or “AL” (RandALCat). A RandALCat character is a character with unambiguously right-to-left directionality. … Read more
For example: باللغة العربية “keyboard” انا أريد أن أعرف الكلمة Finish typing the Arabic word and add a space after it (this space separates the embedded text from the Arabic text to its right). Insert special character U+200F (to render the preceding space an Arabic character). The character name is “Right to Left Mark”. Insert … Read more
Python 3 renamed the unicode type to str, the old str type has been replaced by bytes. if isinstance(unicode_or_str, str): text = unicode_or_str decoded = False else: text = unicode_or_str.decode(encoding) decoded = True You may want to read the Python 3 porting HOWTO for more such details. There is also Lennart Regebro’s Porting to Python … Read more