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Re: Request for HTML Draft to support Multi Direction languages.

From: Martin J. Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:30:51 +0200 (MET DST)
To: Erez Levin <erezl@dingo.co.il>
Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, rannissan@dingo.co.il, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970407112904.245B-100000@enoshima> 
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Erez Levin wrote:

> Dear sirs,
> 
> I want to bring this issue up.
> 
> Arabic, Hebrew and other languages are wrriten from right to left. 
> While The latest HTML draft does not have a special tag to specify the
> direction and takes left to right as the default direction of the
> language.

This is indeed a HTML issue, not an HTTP issue. And it has been
addressed already. Please see RFC 2070!

Regards,	Martin (one of the authors of RFC 2070).
Received on Monday, 7 April 1997 02:34:26 EDT

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