RE: Bidi controls vs markup revamp

Hi Najib,

You're missing the note alongside the first use of this convention in the article.  Please read it.

Cheers,
RI


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Richard Ishida
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W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Najib Tounsi [mailto:ntounsi@emi.ac.ma] 
> Sent: 26 November 2007 09:52
> To: David Clarke
> Cc: Richard Ishida; public-i18n-core@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Bidi controls vs markup revamp
> 
> David Clarke wrote:
> > Note : Bidi is not my field of expertise.
> >
> > I believe it is common practice to represent non-ASCII text using 
> > upper-case letters when showing an example in in ASCII, 
> particularly 
> > for directionality examples.
> >
> > In light of this, would it be a good idea to change 
> '||mvanjbh tvlj*p' 
> > in the examples to 'MVANJBH TVLJ*P' ?||
> +1
> 
> I am missing something. What does this string mean? Is This 
> Hebrew transcripted in Latin? How to pronounce it?
> 
> Najib
> >
> > Richard Ishida 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
>

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