- From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 17:47:54 -0700
- To: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>, Matitiahu Allouche <matial@il.ibm.com>
- Cc: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, www-international@w3.org, www-international-request@w3.org, www-i18n-comments@w3.org
At 06:12 AM 3/25/2004, Najib Tounsi wrote: >Matitiahu Allouche wrote: > >9) In the table contained in section "Other Unicode characters are OK", >LRM and RLM are commented as "Deprecated in Unicode". I am very >surprised. What is the basis for such a statement? > > >I was surprised too and a little disappointed. I find LRM & RLM very >useful and use them often. Is there an alternative to fix the correct >rendering of punctuations between bidi texts for example? One can put such >text PLUS it's punctuation into a span element with a dir attribute. But >the rendering might not be the same (old browsers?) if this text has to be >displayed in more than one line (table cells, small windows ...). This must be a misunderstanding by the authors. These characters are certainly not deprecated in Unicode and furthermore exist in several widely used 8-bit character sets. Even UTR#20 / W3C Note: Unicode in XML lists these in table 4.1 "Format chracters *suitable* for use in markup". A./
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