I know of several feeds that could benefit from this but there's
certainly not an extensive collection, currently... which is precisely
why this is targeted for "Experimental" status rather than "Standards
Track". The idea is to get a stable specification out there and
encourage folks to go forth and implement it. As we learn more about
internationalization issues in feeds, we can revisit this. Experimental
RFC's are a good thing :-)
- James
Brian Smith wrote:
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
