Re: I18n comment: bidirectional ordering

At 19:53 06/01/21, ishida@w3.org wrote:
 >
 >Comment from the i18n review of:
 >http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-selectors-20051215/
 >
 >Comment 21
 >At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0601-css3-selectors/
 >Editorial/substantive: E
 >Location in reviewed document:
 >Sec. 7.2 [http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-selectors-20051215/#pseudo-elements]
 >, last para
 >
 >Comment:
 >It may be useful to provide an example to clarify the bidirectional
 >ordering point. We could probably do that for you, if needed.

A very simple example, using lower case (!) for RTL:

The logical sentence:
     W3C is written in latin letters in hebrew.
Is displayed as:
     .werbeh ni srettel nital ni nettirw si W3C
The first letter is "W", but it appears in the middle of the line
due to reordering.

 >Presumably, in ordinary right to left text, the user agent would be
 >expected to apply the styling to the character on the right of the line.

Of course. I don't see any problem there; the text is very
careful to always speak of 'first' rather than leftmost or
whatever letter.

 >Note that this (presumably) applies really to Hebrew but not Arabic, since
 >the latter script is cursive.

I have a vague recollection of Arabic with letters of different size.
I hope somebody can confirm.
There is nothing in principle that would disallow making the first
letter larger (or otherwise different in style) even if the script
is cursive.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:43:18 UTC