- From: seeman <seeman@netvision.net.il>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:09:23 +0200
- To: "WAI" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
further thought- every time a bi- directional language switches direction - it should be tagged. This includes numbers which go from left to right, even though it does note constitute a brake in natural language. -----Original Message----- From: seeman <seeman@netvision.net.il> To: WAI <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000 12:04 PM Subject: a whole new headache? >A student of mine asked me to look into writing html with a Hebrew which is >a bi-directional language (so is Arabic). >>From my research for her Visual Hebrew can be see by browsers on all >platforms: PC, Mac and X-terminal (UNIX). Logical Hebrew can only be seen >from a PC. >But, >Visual Hebrew, the writer (or the converter program) has to take care of >breaking the lines. So you have to use absolute width with page layout >tables. If the browser makes break the line by itself, the text will become >unreadable. > >Now for people don't have Hebrew installed on their PC the whole thing is >gibberish. So you have to have an English version page. But that seems to me >to be, well, a second best. > >A lot of this conflicts with our guidelines ( absolute width, tables for >page layout...) and altogether seems to be a big accessibility problem for a >lot of people. > >Have we dealt with all this before I joined? if so were can I read up about >it? > >Or is this a whole new headache? > >Yours, with the Tylenol >Lisa > > > >
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