RE: New article for REVIEW: Upgrading from language-specific legacy encoding to Unicode encoding

I suggest that this article should at least mention the problems of legacy
conversion to Unicode specific to bidi, i.e. visual order vs. logical order.

HTML supports this in two ways: 

1) Specifying ISO-8859-8 as the character set indicates visual order, and my
recommendation is to leave these pages alone.

2) If you must upgrade, use the BDO tag.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2.4

Jony

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> language-specific legacy encoding to Unicode encoding
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> Title: Upgrading from language-specific legacy encoding to 
> Unicode encoding
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-utf8-upgrade.html
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> Comments are being sought on this article prior to final 
> release. Please send any comments to 
> www-international@w3.org. We expect to publish a final 
> version in one to three weeks.
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> This article provides an answer to the question: What should 
> I consider when upgrading my web pages from legacy encoding 
> to Unicode encoding?
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