- From: Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 09:05:11 -0500
- To: SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <BANLkTim4UZzsZ+p7q6WfEawunhZGbZws3w@mail.gmail.com>
Oops, forgot to include the good tutorial that I have used in the past: http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/ On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote: > Christophe, > > I personally do not think SKOS or any other structured format should > concern itself with display and presentation, especially adding control > chars within the data itself [1]. Display and presentation of data should > be left to the browser application itself, and the markup handling. > > 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/ > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Christophe Dupriez < > christophe.dupriez@destin.be> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I would like to know if some best practices has been set up to support RTL >> (right to left) languages in XML, RDF or SKOS. >> >> The problem: when displaying Arabic or Hebrew, the browsers must be told >> to write from right to left and (ideally) the text is better displayed >> aligned on the right rather than the left. >> >> One may wish that applications not be obliged to make explicit tests like >> "if language is Arabic or Hebrew then RTL+align:right else then >> LTR+align:left". >> >> What have been done for this? What the community think that should be >> done? >> >> I made a test by hand to prepare addition of Arabic to JITA: >> http://www.askosi.org/JITA-ar.htm >> >> Other languages of the JITA thesaurus, as used to access E-LIS (click on >> concepts in schemas): >> http://www.askosi.org/jita >> >> For now, my "feeling" is to add Unicode character x202B before Arabic and >> Hebrew labels and Unicode character x202C at the end (i.e. within the data). >> Character x202C is Pop Direction Format: return to the direction (LTR or >> RTL) in use when x202B (switch to RTL) was encountered. >> >> But what others do??? >> >> I will be happy to learn about your thought on this topic! >> >> Christophe >> >> > > > -- > -Thad > http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry > -- -Thad http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry
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