- From: Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@qsm.co.il>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:36:37 +0200
- To: "'Chris Croome'" <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>, <www-international@w3.org>
Bdo should be used in exceptional circumstances only, such a "part numbers" or legacy visual text. Plain dir="rtl" is the way to go. BTW, the lang attribute has no effect on directionality. Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: www-international-request@w3.org > [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Chris Croome > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 7:46 PM > To: www-international@w3.org > Subject: [chris@WEBARCHITECTS.CO.UK: RDF DC for right-to-left > languages -- XHTML BDO and dir attribute?] > > > Hi > > I posted the following to the Dublin Core > Internationalisation list [3] and it was suggested that this > list would be a better place to raise the issue. > > Chris > > > ----- Forwarded message from Chris Croome > <chris@WEBARCHITECTS.CO.UK> ----- > > From: Chris Croome <chris@WEBARCHITECTS.CO.UK> > Reply-To: Chris Croome <chris@WEBARCHITECTS.CO.UK> > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:25:12 +0000 > To: DC-INTERNATIONAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: RDF DC for right-to-left languages -- XHTML BDO > and dir attribute? > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i > > Hi > > If I wanted to produce DC RDF files that has content in a > right-to-left language, say Urdu, would something like the > following be the correct way to do it? > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" > xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" > xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> > <rdf:Description> > <dc:creator>Karl Mustermann</dc:creator> > <dc:title>Algebra</dc:title> > <dc:subject> > <rdf:Description dc:language="ur"> > <rdf:value xml:lang="ur" xhtml:dir="rtl">[Urdu > here]</rdf:value> > </rdf:Description> > </dc:subject> > </rdf:Description> > </rdf:RDF> > > Or perhaps: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" > xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" > xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> > <rdf:Description> > <dc:creator>Karl Mustermann</dc:creator> > <dc:title>Algebra</dc:title> > <dc:subject> > <rdf:Description dc:language="ur"> > <rdf:value xml:lang="ur"> > <xhtml:bdo dir="rtl">[Urdu here]</xhtml:bdo> > </rdf:value> > </rdf:Description> > </dc:subject> > </rdf:Description> > </rdf:RDF> > > The above examples are based on the example in the DCQ > proposal [1] and the W3C / Unicode Consortium's Note on Unicode [2]. > > Also should this issue be mentioned somewhere on the DC web site? > > Chris > > [1] http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/11/30/dcq-rdf-xml/#sec4 > > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-unicode-xml-20020218/#Bidi > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > [3] http://dublincore.org/groups/languages/#forums > > -- > 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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