RE: XHTML 2.0 review

Hi Najib,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Najib Tounsi [mailto:ntounsi@emi.ac.ma] 
> Sent: 03 November 2004 14:56
> To: Richard Ishida
> Cc: i18n IG; GEO
> Subject: Re: XHTML 2.0 review
> 
> 
> About the review, why not to seize this opportunity to 
> mention the problem of bidi texts in the title elements [1] 
> (as well as for title or alt attributes)?
> To display correctly in browsers, bidi texts, i.e. ar/he 
> mixed with latin, might be surrounded by the pair of Unicode  
> control characters 
> U+202B (RLE) and U+202C (PDF)  to force the RTL 
> directionnality to apply
> for titles. The corresponding XHTML entities are &x202B; and 
> &x2020C; Could we suggest to XHTML2.0 to add this, for 
> example as a trick, to avoid the problem?

Thanks for bringing this up.  I'm not sure the XHTML guys will want to specify *how* this is achieved, leaving that for implementations, but it may be appropriate to describe the expected behaviour.  


> 
> BTW, the example in "15.1.3. 15.1.1. Inheritance of text 
> direction information" [2] says:
> 
> <html dir="rtl">
> <head>
> <title>/...a right-to-left title.../</title>         (*)
> </head>
> /...right-to-left text...                           (**/)
> <p dir="ltr">/...left-to-right text.../</p>
> <p>/...right-to-left text again.../</p>              
> </html>
> 
> The "right-to-left-ness" in (*) is not always the same as in (**)

Do you mean because you can't add markup to the title element?  (Note that in XHTML 2 you will be able to (since we asked for it)).


> 
> Regards,
> 
> Najib
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/International/tests/sec-bidi-misc-1
> [2] 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/mod-bidi.html#sec_15.1.1.
> 
> 
> Richard Ishida wrote:
> 
> >I have created a new table containing the points we will put 
> forward as 
> >a group, edited to reflect our discussions during the 
> telecon (as far 
> >as point 21). See 
> >http://www.w3.org/International/2004/10/xhtml2-i18n-review
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