- From: Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:56:01 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi David I feel I own you an apology. On Sun 24-Feb-2002 at 11:22:18 +0000, Chris Croome wrote: > > On Sun 24-Feb-2002 at 09:13:53 +0000, David Woolley wrote: > > > Therefore would I be correct in deducting that there is no point > > > in setting text direction using CSS [2] since it has to be set in > > > the document using the dir attribute in order to be accessible? > > > > My understanding is that it should very rarely need to be set in the > > document as the use of Arabic Unicode characters should > > automatically trigger the relevant direction change. You are right, if you take this page: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/translations/persian.html In mozilla it gets rendered right to left if dir="rtl" is removed and if the CSS setting the direction is removed. Chris -- Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk> web design http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ web content management http://mkdoc.com/ everything else http://chris.croome.net/
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