- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:51:18 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
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. ~fantasai
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