- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:50:54 +0100
- To: "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kennyluck@w3.org>
- CC: ML www-font <www-font@w3.org>, ML public-i18n-core <public-i18n-core@w3.org>, ML publc-i18n-bidi <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>
On Thursday, January 13, 2011, 12:17:11 AM, Kang-Hao wrote: >> ICWGIT> It should be possible to use markup to set the base direction >> ICWGIT> of any element in order to enable correct display of >> ICWGIT> bidirectional text. We suggest a dir attribute with the >> ICWGIT> values rtl and ltr as a minimum. >> I suggest that we accept this comment. This would be consistent with other markup at W3C like HTML and SVG. >> Richard, I assume that the attribute would be optional and that, if omitted, the text direction would be determined by the Unicode directionality of the first character? KHKL> I haven't looked at SVG but in HTML the default value is "ltr", and what KHKL> you described is similar to the newly speced dir="auto" behavior in HTML5. SVG has the same default http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/text.html#DirectionProperty KHKL> I don't know which is better in WOFF. Did we discuss this in the i18n KHKL> call yesterday? I couldn't really participate due to connection issues. There were a lot of connection issues yesterday, happily since resolved. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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