RE: Directional text attribute RTL

Hi Richard,

I think you read the surrounding text you’ll see that the figures are trying to illustrate that the text will look broken in the ways you cite if you don’t manage direction in your HTML editor carefully (and that even then you may sometimes see some text presentation artifacts). That is, when you are editing an HTML document as a text file, the Unicode bidirectional algorithm will cause the markup to be displayed strangely even though the resulting HTML (when viewed in a browser) is correct.

The =p is shown because the = is actually being stripped off of the title attribute. You can easily recreate this for yourself. In vi or notepad or some other simple editor, type:

<p class=”myclass” title=”[insert the Arabic text here]”>.</p>

… and then set the reading order in your editor to RTL. The characters are all still in the same order as you see above in my note, but the presentation is now “garbled”.

Addison

From: Richard Dunne [mailto:richarddunnebsc@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 11:39 AM
To: www-international@w3.org
Subject: Directional text attribute RTL

In the W3 documentation on authoring with Right to Left scripts, the explanation shows the difference between authoring with RTL and LTR.  In section 3.1 Working with markup, Fig1 shows Markup being rearranged in LTR source code.  Fig 2 shows markup rearranged in RTL source code.
Fig1 shows two attributes, the class attribute with value myclass in double quotes "myclass", followed by the title attribute where its value is paragraph content written in Arabic Text in double quotes: title="Arabic Text".
Fig2 seemingly shows three attributes, p which I am guessing means paragraph equals Arabic Text in double quotes: "Arabic Text"=p,
class equals myclass in double quotes: class="myclass" and title on its own, not equal to anything.
It doesn't look right or make sense.  Can someone take a look at it and verify it is correct.  http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/#ri20060625.102000852


Sincerely,

Richard Dunne.