Re: per-paragraph auto-direction, a.k.a. dir=uba

  I was partly joking and would in no way want to shoehorn in a new dir 
value. I would add to Aharon's solutions that the standard approach is 
to tear your hair out for a short while, give up and type the phone 
number in backwards knowing you will live a cursed existence.

Phone numbers are one of those edge cases where the UBA hinders more 
than helps.

Adil

On 25/09/2010 20:39, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote:
> I think Adil was joking, but only to an extent. With AN digits, even 
> in dir=ltr, brackets, spaces, and hyphens all give problems - when the 
> UBA is actually implemented correctly. For example, 617-987-5432 in AN 
> digits (٦١٧-٩٨٧-٦٥٤٣) comes out in Chrome and IE8 and Firefox as 
> 5432-987-617, even in LTR. That's not every good... On the other 
> hand, Notepad (at least on my XP) takes liberties with the UBA, 
> and does it the way you would want it, with the area code on the left.
>
> To get it to look how you would want it in a current browser version, 
> you'd have to use <bdo dir=ltr>.
>
> Or, you can replace the hyphens with periods: ٦١٧.٩٨٧.٦٥٤٣ (yes, those 
> are periods...). Then it comes out that way even in RTL. However, I am 
> not sure if the relevant users actually use periods to format their 
> phone numbers.
>
> Aharon
>
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:34 AM, fantasai 
> <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net <mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 09/23/2010 10:34 PM, Adil Allawi wrote:
>
>         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" :)
>
>
>     Why wouldn't that be dir=ltr?
>
>     ~fantasai
>
>