- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:11:47 +0100
- To: <xslf@xslf.com>, <www-i18n-comments@w3.org>
Hello Shoshannah, Thanks for these comments. See notes below... RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ > -----Original Message----- > From: www-i18n-comments-request@w3.org > [mailto:www-i18n-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Richard Ishida > Sent: 26 May 2004 18:55 > To: www-i18n-comments@w3.org > Subject: FW: Comment on " Authoring Techniques for XHTML & > HTML Internationalization: Handling Bidirectional Text" > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shoshannah Forbes [mailto:xslf@xslf.com] > Sent: 12 May 2004 19:46 > To: ishida@w3.org > Subject: Comment on " Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML > Internationalization: Handling Bidirectional Text" > > Hi. > I just went trough the article you edited titled "Authoring > Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Handling > Bidirectional Text" > http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/ > > I was surprised to see ie5/mac listed in the list of > browsers- It has no support for RTL text (it ignores > dir=rtl), and it doesn't even display Hebrew characters at > all (regardless of encoding). I have removed all references to IE Mac pending a further testing. Thanks. > > Also, Opera added support to bidi text only in version 7.20, > and not 7.0 That is indeed indicated in the data - see for example the Opera column at http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/outline/html-authoring-outline .html#ri20030728.093644822 Is there a specific location you had in mind? > > > Speaking of encodings- IMHO it should be mentioned that if > you want to include Hebrew diacritics in the text, the > encoding needs to be > windows-1255 or utf-8, as iso-8859-8-i does not include > diacritical marks. Thanks. Worth noting. > > Best regards, > Shoshannah Forbes > -- > http://www.xslf.com >
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