HTML 4 from Jonathan Rosenne on 1998-12-02 (www-html@w3.org from December 1998)

From: Jonathan Rosenne <jonathan_rosenne@csi.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 23:37:07 +0200
To: www-html@w3.org, unicode@unicode.org (Unicode)
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HTML 4, "Language information and text direction", says:

"Because HTML uses the full Unicode bidirectionality algorithm, conforming
documents must be labeled as "iso-8859-8-e". Implicit bidirectionality is
part of the full Unicode algorithm, so the values "iso-8859-8-i" may also
be accepted, but should not be used."

I believe this is a mistake. Unicode is "iso-8859-8-i". "iso-8859-8-e" is
the ISO 6429 explicit directionality that is only being used in some Unix
systems.

Jony

Received on Wednesday, 2 December 1998 16:54:26 UTC