- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 01:19:41 +0200
- To: Udi Wertheimer <ticker@newmail.net>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On 18.03.01 at 00:23, Udi Wertheimer <ticker@newmail.net> wrote: >The ISO-8859 standard includes the ISO-8859-8 character set, which is a >standard Hebrew character set. However, in HTML, the iso-8859-8 "charset" >is considered to mark a page as with visually ordered Hebrew, and not with >implicit, right-to-left, directionality. W3C is aware of this, and also >recommends to use the iso-8859-i encoding in implicit Hebrew pages on the >HTML 4 specification at >http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html#bidi88598. However, the >HTML Validator does not recognize the iso-8859-8-i character set. So, the >Validator should be fixed to support the iso-8859-i character set, which >is IDENTICAL to iso-8859-8 in the character map. So we should treat "iso-8859-8-i" as an alias for "iso-8859-8"? (I'm assuming that "iso-8859-i" is shorthand for "iso-8859-8-i"?)
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