RE: Bug Safari

Hi Najib,

Before I respond to this, I'd like to make sure we're standing on firm
ground.  Could you provide a list of the characters used in each example in
the order in which they appear *in memory*, so we know what we're talking
about. Bidi editors can confuse the matter.

A good way to do this is to drop the line of characters into the cut & paste
field of http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/ and hit return.  Then
copy the vertical list of characters into the email.  For example, is the
sequence in memory of the first example


003E:   >  GREATER-THAN SIGN
0020:     SPACE
0061:   a  LATIN SMALL LETTER A
0020:     SPACE
0031:   1  DIGIT ONE
0062:   b  LATIN SMALL LETTER B
0020:     SPACE
003C:   <  LESS-THAN SIGN

RI


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Najib Tounsi [mailto:ntounsi@emi.ac.ma] 
> Sent: 12 October 2004 22:08
> To: Richard Ishida
> Cc: GEO
> Subject: Bug Safari
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Could some one explain why the following HTML (note the dir="rtl")
> 
> <html dir="rtl">
> <head>
> <title>Bug bidi Safari</title></head>
>   <body>
> 
>    <p> a 1b </p>   <!-- bizarre -->
>    <p> a1 b  </p>
>    <p> a 1 b  </p>
>    <p> a 1bc </p>
>    <p> ac 1b </p>   <!-- bizarre -->
>    <p> acd 1b </p> <!-- and so on  -->
> 
>   </body>
> </html>
> 
> 
> gives :
> 
> ba 1
> a1 b
> a 1 b
> a 1bc
> bac 1
> bacd 1
> 
> with Safari 1.1 on MacOSX.
> <!-- "b" runs at the RIGHT after the  display of "1" when it 
> is attached to it -->
> <!-- Doesn't happen when b is followed with sth (but a 
> punctuation) -->
> 
> It should be displayed as it appears in HTML, since there are 
> no RTL character.
> Other browsers on MacOSX are OK (Mozilla17 IE60)
> 
> Does any body have an explanation?
> 
> Najib
> 
> PS: In french,  I'd say SAFARIEN DU TOUT  ;-)
> 
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