Updated articles on bidi topics

The following articles have been updated and reviewed by the 
Internationalization Working Group.  If you have additional comments, 
please send them using the "Leave a comment" link at the bottom right of 
the page.

How to use Unicode controls for bidi text
https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-unicode-controls
changes at: 
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/commits/gh-pages/questions/qa-bidi-unicode-controls.en.html

Unicode controls vs. markup for bidi support
changes at: https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-controls
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/commits/gh-pages/questions/qa-bidi-controls.en.html

CSS vs. markup for bidi support
https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-css-markup
changes at: 
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/commits/gh-pages/questions/qa-bidi-css-markup.en.html


Changes include the following:

* added a quick answer

* removed background sections now that we have other articles that deal 
with that information (pointed to those)

* clarified the distinction between structural/block markup and inline 
markup wrt control character usage in a new section

* expanded the section on inline issues to take into account 
HTML5-related developments

* introduced concept of isolation, including RLI/LRI/FSI/PDI

* removed out of date references and quotations

* introduced the concept of tightly-wrapping all opposite-direction 
phrases from the HTML article

* basically rewrote everything to make it cleaner, clearer and more snappy

* replaced outdated spec links and quotes

* added reference to polyglot

* pointed to the HTML5 rendering section rather than providing a CSS 
template (which was out of date) in the document


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Because there were so many changes, links to the following translations 
were removed: German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese,  Romanian, Russian, 
Ukrainian.  Translators are invited to provide updates for these 
translations or add new ones. To do so, please contact me to obtain the 
new source text.


ri

Received on Thursday, 10 March 2016 20:09:06 UTC