At 07:24 11/12/96 PST, Larry Masinter wrote: ># In addition, for ISO-8859-7 and -8, there is the problem of ># bidirectionality. Given as such, these labels imply visual ordering, ># which may be the best thing for line-oriented mail systems. ># However, for HTML, a variant "charset" parameter (don't know ># its value) has to be used, because HTML does line layout on ># its own and has to get logical ordering and BIDI markup as input. > >would be the most useful way to publish this information. See RFC 1556. I guess the HTTP spec should be expanded to cover the bidi attributes. I am not sure that users of 8859-6 (Arabic) actually follow this RFC. -- Jonathan Rosenne JR Consulting P O Box 33641, Tel Aviv, Israel Phone: +972 50 246 522 Fax: +972 9 956 7353 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Jonathan_Rosenne/Received on Wednesday, 11 December 1996 14:47:54 GMT
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