I thought that the CSS property setting of
unicode-bidi="normal" had the effect of saying that the normal
Unicode bidi rules were applied to text, and that the direction property
text was effectively ignored (or treated as if it were what is being
suggested as "auto").
To force a text direction in CSS, you must set direction and set the
unicode-bidi property to "embed" or
"override".
At 2007.03.14-09:08(-0700), Mark Davis wrote:
The key issue is when users are
keying in text in a text entry box. It is quite common with websites in a
RTL language for people to be entering in basically LTR text; and also
not uncommon for those users to make use of LTR websites (like
google.com), and enter in RTL text, say
to search for. If the text entry box is in the "wrong"
direction for the text, it is very hard to read and edit. By having an
"auto" option that uses the Unicode BIDI algorithm's default
for setting the text direction (keying off the first strong direction
character of each paragraph), it makes it much easier for users to read
and edit the text that they are typing in.
Mark
On 3/14/07, Richard Ishida
<ishida@w3.org> wrote:
- Mark, Simon,
- Could you put a few more words around this, explaining why it is
needed and how you think it could be addressed? Then we can discuss
the proposal in the i18n core WG and, if agreed, forward to CSS and any
other WGs for consideration.
- Cheers,
- RI
- PS: Note that w3c-i18n-ig@w3 is no longer in use. If you are in
the Core WG, you can use public-i18n-core@w3.
- ============
- Richard Ishida
- Internationalization Lead
- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
- http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
- http://www.w3.org/International/
- http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/
- ________________________________
- From:
www-international-request@w3.org
[mailto:www-international-request@w3.org]
On Behalf Of Mark Davis
- Sent: 11 March 2007
00:03
- To: Simon Montagu
- Cc: Jonathan Rosenne;
www-international@w3.org;
w3c-i18n-ig
- Subject: Re: Invalid
relationship between bandwidth and spoken language
- that would be really
good...
- On 3/10/07, Simon Montagu
<smontagu@smontagu.org>
wrote:
-
I proposed some time ago adding a value "auto" to the css
"direction"
-
property to achieve this result.
-
Mark Davis wrote:
-
> Side issue: Interestingly, we've found that the ltr/rtl options
are
-
> insufficient. What people want in many cases in input fields is the
-
> "default" algorithm, whereby even on a generally rtl page,
the field
-
> becomes ltr if the first strong character is ltr. Right now we
are
-
> simulating that with JavaScript (but it is a pain to do so).
-
>
-
> Mark
-
>
-
> On 3/9/07, *Jonathan Rosenne*
<rosennej@qsm.co.il
-
>
<mailto:
rosennej@qsm.co.il <mailto:rosennej@qsm.co.il> >>
wrote:
-
>
-
> This was a strange remark. For Arabic or
Hebrew texts, little if any
-
> bidi markup is needed. dir="rtl"
on the HTML will do the work. As
-
> the referenced article says, it is only
needed for mixed content.
-
> And then there is no difference between LTR
text contained in an RTL
-
> document and RTL text contained in an LTR
document.
-
>
-
> Jony
-
>
-
> -----Original
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<mailto:www-international-request@w3.org> > [mailto:
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Of
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> *Richard
Ishida
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> *Sent:* Friday,
March 09, 2007 4:11 PM
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> *To:* 'Rotan
Hanrahan'
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> *Cc:*
www-international@w3.org
<mailto:www-international@w3.org>
- > *Subject:* RE: Invalid relationship between bandwidth and spoken
- > language
- >
- > Fixed.
- >
- > RI
- >
- > ============
- > Richard Ishida
- > Internationalization Lead
- > W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
- >
- > http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
- > http://www.w3.org/International/
- > http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/
- > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/
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- >
- >
- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > *From:* www-international-request@w3.org
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- > [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org
- > <mailto: www-international-request@w3.org <mailto:www-international-request@w3.org> >] *On Behalf Of
- > *Rotan Hanrahan
- > *Sent:* 09 March 2007 12:59
- > *To:* www-international@w3.org <mailto: www-international@w3.org <mailto:www-international@w3.org> >
- > *Subject:* Invalid relationship between bandwidth and spoken
- > language
- >
- > A colleague of mine, working in an Arabic speaking region of
- > the world has pointed out a comment [1] regarding the use of
- > bidi markup, in which it is stated:
- >
- > "Removing them will significantly simplify the document, and
- > reduce bandwidth - which may be an important consideration
- > in countries where Arabic is spoken."
- >
- > This line seems to suggest that there is an association
- > between lack of adequate network bandwidth and the speaking
- > of Arabic, an implication I am sure was not intended.
- > Firstly, the effect of bidi markup on bandwidth consumption
- > is negligible compared to the accompanying graphics.
- > Secondly, any saving on payload size should be seen as
- > universally beneficial, not just for countries characterised
- > by the language they speak.
- >
- > I suggest that the closing part of that statement ("in
- > countries where Arabic is spoken") be removed from future
- > revisions, as it is unnecessary and open to misinterpretation.
- >
- > ---Rotan.
- >
- > [1]
- > _http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech- bidi.html#ri20030726.132037950_
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