- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 17:18:20 +0300
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Hi Richard, Adding back in the SKOS list directly! Thanks for your reply- copied below for the list. Makes sense re attributes/markup, and to use explicit markup not support code. But I don't know much about the 'dir' attribute - which namespace if any that it is in, etc. From an RDF/XML perspective, SKOS that uses it would need to use XML Literal markup, I guess? I'd be really happy if someone from this list put together a short best practice guide for SKOS at the modelling level, and SKOS at the syntax (RDF/XML, RDFa, Turtle...) level. Ideally some SPARQL queries too... cheers, Dan On 26 May 2011 14:59, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote: > Hi Danbri, > > For creating XML applications, see the articles linked from > http://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-xml#direction > > See also the editors working draft of Additional Requirements for Bidi in > HTML at http://www.w3.org/International/docs/html-bidi-requirements/ for > additional considerations that may apply to XML applications as well as > HTML. > > The answer to the question "Can we use the xml:lang attribute to determine > direction?" is no (see the documentation). You need a separate dir > attribute. Also, markup is better than Unicode control characters - which > means by implication that you should avoid natural language in attribute > values in case you need to deal with bidi text. > > Let me know if that helps. > RI > > > > > On 26/05/2011 12:35, Dan Brickley wrote: >> >> Hello Richard, >> >> Do you have any quick advice or 'read this' urls for this SKOS thread? >> >> cheers, >> >> Dan >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Christophe Dupriez<christophe.dupriez@destin.be> >> Date: 26 May 2011 12:38 >> Subject: Arabic or Hebrew languages (Right to Left Languages) and >> SKOS, XML,RDF,etc. >> To: SKOS<public-esw-thes@w3.org>, Armando >> Stellato<stellato@info.uniroma2.it> >> >> >> 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 >> > > -- > Richard Ishida > Internationalization Activity Lead > W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) > > http://www.w3.org/International/ > http://rishida.net/ >
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