- From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:59:10 -0400
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- CC: Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
On 08/19/10 18:52, Chris Lilley wrote: > > I understand the point you are making about how bidi works. Believe me too. No, I wasn't making a point about how bidi works. Did you read the example? > (description of bidi, omitted) > > But you fail to understand the point I was making. I have the same feeling towards you :). The part I think you are missing in my argument is that I delicately built my example such that the Arabic font is mirrored, but not the Latin. Think about it. > Here is an experiment. Take a printed item, containing Latin text. Hold it to a mirror. look in the mirror. You see Latin text mirrored, with all the glyphs back to front, and progressing right to left. > > Is this RTL text? Yes. Because you read it right to left if you read it in the mirror. behdad
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