- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 10:00:00 +0900
- To: jonathan_rosenne@csi.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, unicode@unicode.org
Jonathan Rosenne <jonathan_rosenne@csi.com> wrote: > 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." No, HTML 4 spec says [1]: "Because HTML uses the Unicode bidirectionality algorithm, conforming documents encoded using ISO 8859-8 must be labeled as "ISO-8859-8-i". Explicit directional control is also possible with HTML, but cannot be expressed with ISO 8859-8, so "ISO-8859-8-e" 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. So the spec says exactly what you mean. Maybe you were referring WD-html40-970917 or WD-html40-970708. Of course, that was an error. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2.4 Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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