I did a quick test, inserting RLE and PDF into the title element and the
text did indeed display in what I the order I consider correct (see attached
picture).
I guess, then, it's a question of passing those characters for display
around the text if the inherited or explicitly set context is rtl.
RI
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-i18n-geo-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-i18n-geo-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of L. David Baron
> Sent: 08 October 2004 00:48
> To: GEO; www-international@w3.org
> Subject: Re: New test for review: Bidi misc
>
> On Thursday 2004-10-07 15:52 -0700, L. David Baron wrote:
> > > Richard Ishida wrote:
> > > >http://www.w3.org/International/tests/sec-bidi-misc-1
> > > >
> > > >Preliminary results show that my most recent versions of
> Opera, IE,
> > > >Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape do not correctly display
> bidi text in
> > > >the window title bar.
> >
> > This seems (I think, although I'm not sure where the letter
> boundaries
> > are) to work correctly for me in Mozilla, Opera, and Konqueror, but
> > that's probably because my windowing system (GNOME 2.6 on
> Fedora Core
> > 2) handles bidirectional text and Arabic shaping.
>
> Er, never mind, now that I pay attention to what the test was
> actually testing.
>
> This actually probably wouldn't be hard to fix, assuming that
> the windowing environment supports LRE/RLE and PDF. And I
> think I'd lean towards agreeing that it is a bug.
>
> -David
>
> --
> L. David Baron <URL:
> http://dbaron.org/ >
>
