RE: Bidi controls vs markup revamp from Martin Duerst on 2007-11-28 (public-i18n-core@w3.org from October to December 2007)

From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:22:57 +0900
To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>
Cc: <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
Message-Id: <6.0.0.20.2.20071128161601.0aed9b70@localhost>

At 17:42 07/11/27, Richard Ishida wrote:
>
>Editorial changes made.
>
>> I also think that the term 'paired' is a bit of a problem, 
>> because it is new and it doesn't explain the problem, and 
>> even &lrm; or so could be paired in some way, e.g. as in &lrm;,&lrm;.
>
>When would you ever need to have &lrm;,&lrm; ?

It's one way to unambiguously give some weak character some
strong directionality. In many specific cases, it may not be
the simplest way to do things, but we should not forget that:

1) Documents may be edited. A single &lrm; may work wonders in
   a specific case, but spanning markup may be much more
   stable under edits.

2) In many contexts, bidi markup (or control characters) has
   to be designed to be useful in varied contexts, e.g. for
   documents created by scripts.

Regards,   Martin.

#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp

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