- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:30:43 +0000
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: public-i18n-core@w3.org, public-i18n-its@w3.org
Richard Ishida wrote:
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> Bidi
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> it should be possible to indicate that the default directionality of a document is right to left in the root element
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> the default directionality for a document should be left-to-right
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> it should be possible to indicate changes in directional context for any range of text in the document (this may necessitate the use of a span-like element), and allowing for ltr, rtl, lro, rlo
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> it should be possible to use &rlo; and &lro; to represent Unicode characters ... and ... respectively
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U+202E and U+202D
> the Unicode characters RLE, LRE, RLO, LRO and PDF should not be used or required - markup should be available
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Is it worth to recall that in the case of XHTML documents, RLE and PDF
are required to surround bidi content in title elements or attribute values?
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