James M Snell writes: Well answered! Thanks for the patience, you've convinced me.
Constructive criticism now - could you explain this: Implementers are reminded that unexpected results could occur when using both the "dir" attribute and the Unicode control characters within a single document. Isn't using both the expected, and only, way to mark-up bidi text when the Unicode heuristics won't do a good enough job? It seems a bit odd to warn against using the feature as intended? > Third, neither Unicode or the W3C recommend using the Unicode bidi > formatting codes are not recommended in markup, for a variety of > reasons. True, but I'm not sure I'd describe a plain text element content or attribute value as markup. Isn't markup something that could alternatively contain tags, and be "marked-up"? Given that these locations can't, the Unicode bidi codes will need to be used regardless, so I'm not sure whether those recommendations apply here? > Fourth, even with the Unicode formatting codes, there are existing > deployed feed readers that get it wrong. And will continue to. -- Dave
