- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:17 -0500
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
Hi, Richard, I18n- You were accidentally omitted from the CC list, so I'm forwarding this message on to you. Please let us know if this response satisfies your comment. Thanks- -Doug Erik Dahlström wrote (on 10/23/08 6:18 AM): > Richard Ishida (i18n) wrote: > >> 10.7 >> [http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/text.html#TextRenderingOrder] >> >> Comment: >> >> "The glyphs associated with the characters within text content >> block elements are rendered in the logical order of the characters >> in the original document, independent of any re-ordering necessary >> to implement bidirectionality. Thus, for text that goes >> right-to-left visually, the glyphs associated with the rightmost >> character are rendered before the glyphs associated with the other >> characters" >> >> Does this allow for reordering of glyphs in Indic and South East >> Asian languages, where the glyphs are not in the same order as the >> characters in the text stream? > > The intention was to allow such reordering, and the quoted paragraph > has been modified to say (this is section 10.7 Text Rendering > Order[1]): > > "The glyphs associated with the characters within text content block > elements are rendered in the logical order of the characters in the > original document, independent of any re-ordering necessary to > implement bidirectionality. Thus, for text that goes right-to-left > visually, the glyphs associated with the rightmost character are > rendered before the glyphs associated with the other characters." > > Please let us know shortly if this satisfies your comment. > > Cheers /Erik > > [1] > http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.2T/publish/text.html#TextRenderingOrder > >
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