- From: Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:51:17 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: ishida@w3.org, www-style@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 ishida@w3.org wrote: >> It may be useful to provide an example to clarify the bidirectional >> ordering point. We could probably do that for you, if needed. > > The working group discussed this issue. > > If you can provide an example of where the start of the line is not on the > end of the line with real hebrew we would be glad to put it in the spec. Here is a right-to-left example in the wild, from http://he.wikibooks.org/wiki/CSS In this plain-text mail it will not appear correctly, since it needs <dir="rtl"> : CSS היא שפה פשוטה מאוד, וכל אדם יכול ללמוד אותה. (Translation: CSS is a very simple language, and anybody can learn it) And a left-to-right example, slightly recast from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet אלף-בית (alef-bet) is the Hebrew word for "alphabet".
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