Re: XHTML 2.0 review

At 23:55 04/11/03, Najib Tounsi wrote:
 >
 >
 >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?

I think it is much better to get them to allow markup in the
<title> element. Maybe that's already the case, because they
should know about this problem. It would make things easier
for authors,..., because that way, they can use the same
mechanism, designed for (X)HTML, everywhere.

Najib, what do you think?

Regards,    Martin.

 >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 (**)
 >
 >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
 >>
 >>RI
 >>
 >>
 >>============
 >>Richard Ishida
 >>W3C
 >>
 >>contact info:
 >>http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
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 >>http://www.w3.org/International/
 >>Publication blog:
 >>http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/
 >>
 >>
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