- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:29:58 -0800
- To: "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org" <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>
On 01/17/2012 08:10 PM, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote: > On 2012/01/17 22:52, Koji Ishii wrote: >> Thank you everyone for very prompt replies. >> >> After looking at your replies, I started to wonder, maybe the way I asked the question wasn't very good, so please allow me >> to rephrase. >> >> We editors expect most non-East Asian authors would use "text-orientation: sideways-right" as explained in the figure[1]. In >> this style, all non-East Asian characters such as Latin or bi-di renders sideways, rotated by 90 degrees, as you all >> recommended. So, that's good to have this many confirmation. > > "text-orientation: sideways-right" seems to be quite okay for Latin or other LTR script in vertical. But wouldn't one want to use > "text-orientation: sideways-left" for Arabic or Hebrew, or otherwise all or mostly RTL text in vertical? I've seen both, actually. And given how hard it is to find such examples, I can't say for sure which is more common. :) ~fantasai
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