- From: Philip Taylor <excors+whatwg@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:52:23 +0100
IE undocumentedly recognises some which nobody else does: aafs U+206D ACTIVATE ARABIC FORM SHAPING ass U+206B ACTIVATE SYMMETRIC SWAPPING iafs U+206C INHIBIT ARABIC FORM SHAPING iss U+206A INHIBIT SYMMETRIC SWAPPING lre U+202A LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING lro U+202D LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE nads U+206E NATIONAL DIGIT SHAPES nods U+206F NOMINAL DIGIT SHAPES pdf U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING rle U+202B RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING rlo U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE zwsp U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (I believe that list is complete.) The first eleven were suggested on https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9605&L=html-wg&P=4579 some time ago but don't seem to have gone very far (except into IE). I can see some legitimate users at <http://www.tasb.com/services/field/staff/index.aspx?print=true> and <http://www.pelesoft.co.il/> and maybe there's a few dozen or hundred more elsewhere (but I can't measure it easily). There's some in text-art at <http://yy28.60.kg/test/read.cgi/maido3/1096370177/l50> and quite a lot in weird places like <http://cheese.2ch.net/life/kako/1010/10103/1010391447.html> or <http://zerosen52.gozaru.jp/log/1093422333.html> that I don't understand but that seem to all be on 2channel (or copied from it). I've no idea how common they are in general. Are these used significantly on the web, or would they be considered highly useful if anyone knew they existed, or should HTML5 just ignore them? -- Philip Taylor excors at gmail.com
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