Re: Updated article: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm basics

Hello Richard,

> Directional runs
......
> Here's the important bit: the order in which directional runs themselves
> are displayed across the page depends on the *prevailing base direction*

.....

> Embedding changes to the base direction
.....
> To correct this, we need to define the *base direction of the Arabic 
text*
> plus the exclamation mark to be right-to-left. 

A comment on terminology.. I'd suggest to use just "base direction" when
referring to the paragraph direction, and "embedding direction" otherwise.

Regards,
Lina




From:   ishida@w3.org
To:     www International <www-international@w3.org>
Date:   25/07/2016 19:36
Subject:        Updated article: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm basics



Since we've had to explain it several times recently during reviews of 
specs from other WGs, i extended the final section of this article to 
show examples of situations where it is important to be able to apply 
rtl base direction to a string in order to achieve correct display.

There's also one example of the need for isolation.

The idea is that we should point people to that when needed during 
reviews.

See the updated version of the article at:
http://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/inline-bidi-markup/uba-basics.en


If there are no objections after a few days, i'll post to the main site.

ri




PS: Please don't suggest additions that will complicate this more – it's 
meant to be a simple, accessible article for newbies, to give them the 
gist of things.  Other articles, such as those listed at the bottom, 
carry greater detail.

Received on Tuesday, 26 July 2016 11:13:53 UTC