- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:42:16 +0100
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: www-style@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
Hi, fantasai- fantasai wrote (on 9/17/08 7:51 PM): > > There's discussion in http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/text.html about > bidirectional text, but there is no definition for a 'direction' property > that I can find, nor any mention of any substitute for it (such as a 'dir' > attribute). > > This is a problem because the Unicode bidirectional algorithm needs a > base direction for each "paragraph" that it operates on. For plain text > it guesses based on the first character in the text, but this is not > always accurate. Applying this rule to SVG Tiny would be incompatible > with an implementation that supported SVG Tiny plus the 'direction' > property because 'direction' defaults to 'ltr', not to 'guess a direction'. > > The lack of a 'direction' affects both bidi reordering and other properties > like 'text-align', whose values' behavior depends on 'direction'. > > I therefore strongly recommend that SVG Tiny include the 'direction' > property. Thanks for your suggestion. We agree with you and the I18N WG, and have added both 'direction' and 'unicode-bidi' properties. [1] Please let us know if this satisfies your comment. [1] http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.2T/publish/text.html#DirectionProperty Regards- -Doug
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