- From: Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu <kennyluck@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:17:11 +0900
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- CC: ML www-font <www-font@w3.org>, ML public-i18n-core <public-i18n-core@w3.org>, ML publc-i18n-bidi <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>
> ICWGIT> It should be possible to use markup to set the base direction > ICWGIT> of any element in order to enable correct display of > ICWGIT> bidirectional text. We suggest a dir attribute with the > ICWGIT> values rtl and ltr as a minimum. > > I suggest that we accept this comment. This would be consistent with other markup at W3C like HTML and SVG. > > Richard, I assume that the attribute would be optional and that, if omitted, the text direction would be determined by the Unicode directionality of the first character? > I haven't looked at SVG but in HTML the default value is "ltr", and what you described is similar to the newly speced dir="auto" behavior in HTML5. I don't know which is better in WOFF. Did we discuss this in the i18n call yesterday? I couldn't really participate due to connection issues.
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