- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 22:35:34 -0400
- To: www-international@w3.org
On 09/26/2016 03:22 AM, Martin J. Dürst wrote: > > 1) Arabic or hebrew script displayed with a font that uses equivalent Latin glyphs, and for which the direction has to be > fixed because RTL Latin doesn't make sense. I think at this point your document is in fact a transcription and should be encoded as such. :) We have the -Latn subtag for a reason. > 2) XML or XML-like documents where direction is given by an attribute, but this attribute (or attributes) are not named "dir", > and/or their values are not named "rtl", "ltr",... > > 3) XML or XML-like documents where certain fields (appearing scattered throughout the document) are RTL by default or by > definition, and where adding a dir='rtl' attribute on each of them would be overkill. > > So the summary is "You shouldn't use this unless you're an UA or you're really exactly sure of what you're doing." These are both cases where you're pretending to be a UA, effectively, by interpreting the markup yourself where the UA is lacking. Under no circumstances do these situations apply to HTML documents, which have their own 'dir' attribute for which UAs already have support. ~fantasai
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