Re: per-paragraph auto-direction, a.k.a. dir=uba from Adil Allawi on 2010-09-24 (public-i18n-bidi@w3.org from July to September 2010)

From: Adil Allawi <adil@diwan.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:34:31 +0300
To: "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>
CC: Matitiahu Allouche <matial@il.ibm.com>, "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, public-i18n-bidi@w3.org, public-i18n-bidi-request@w3.org, Shachar Shemesh <shachar@shemesh.biz>
Message-ID: <4C9C3867.6090605@diwan.com>

  On 15/09/2010 11:40, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote:
> Does anyone know if the plus logically appears before or after a phone 
> number spelled in AN digits? Or is something other than the + used for 
> the international prefix?

Phone numbers written with Arabic numbers are ordered entirely left to 
right, as if they are written with English numbers. Brackets, spaces and 
hyphens "-" are also commonly used. This made producing my business card 
an interesting challenge. Maybe we need a dir="phone_number" :)

Adil

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