Nicolas Krebs wrote: > James Snell wrote: > >The Atom Bidi draft [1] has entered last call. I posted an updated > >version of the draft today indicating "Experimental" status > > rather than "Standards Track". The draft is currently implemented > > by Apache Abdera and the Lotus Connections Blogs component. > > Additional implementation and feedback are requested.
James, Do you know of any publically-available Atom documents in BIDI languages that would benefit from this extension? The example in the draft does not seem to benefit from the extension; AFAICT, the text in the examples is comprised of pure Arabic text, which is strongly RTL, so the Unicode BIDI algorithm should work fine. I searched for some before, and I found a few Hebrew and one Arabic Atom document, but none of them would have benefited from this extension, AFAICT. > Editorial comments. You could add > - http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/#directionality as > informative references, in Section 5.2 > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-atompub-bidi-06#section-5.2 > - Why create atom:dir instead of re-use its:dir (in a > Rationale section). > - What are the differences between atom:dir and its:dir . I agree, these are the first questions I had when reading the previous drafts. The draft says 'Implementers are reminded that unexpected results could occur when using both the "dir" attribute and the Unicode control characters within a single document.' What are the expected results? Regards, Brian
