Re: Bidi controls vs markup revamp

The Answer doesn't work. You have:

Answer

In (X)HTML and XML do not use the Unicode bidi formatting code characters
where markup is available.
People will be confused by this, since the recommendation is to use the bidi
formatting characters ‏ and ‎ in preference to either markup or the
stateful bidi formatting characters.

You can introduce the stateless formatting characters before the answer, and
then the answer can be the following. (slight wordsmithing also, although I
think it needs a bit further work)
Answer

Avoid using the *stateful *Unicode bidi formatting characters in HTML and in
XML, where equivalent markup is available.

On Nov 22, 2007 10:10 AM, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote:

>
> Chaps,
>
> I was editing the ITS WG's Best Practices for XML Internationalization
> this afternoon and I needed to refer to an explanation of why you should use
> markup rather than unicode control characters.  The obvious article was
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-controls.en but (a) that
> was very focused on HTML, and (b) I have felt for some time that it needed
> some beefing up, particularly in the explanation dept.
>
> So I set about creating a new version, currently visible at
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/temp.php
>
> I'd like to publish this new version asap.  Please tell me whether you
> have any issues with it before Wednesday's telecon.
>
> Thanks,
> RI
>
> ============
> Richard Ishida
> Internationalization Lead
> W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
>
> http://www.w3.org/International/
> http://rishida.net/blog/
> http://rishida.net/
>
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-- 
Mark