Joe Cheng wrote: > Brian Smith wrote: > > ...they use dir="rtl", but they would be > > rendered the same even if the mechanism wasn't being used, > because the > > example BIDI text is 100% strongly RTL, right? > > Doesn't dir="rtl" generally result in blocks being > right-aligned instead of left-aligned? At least this > is the case in HTML. > > (Sorry if I am way off, I'm not an expert in bidi and haven't been > following the thread)
Possibly. I bet James would be able to answer better than me. I would think that the default alignment would depend heavily on the user interface of the application and the user's language preferences. My understanding is that directionality overrides are primarily focused on the correct rendering of characters that are not stringly LTR or RTL, like punctionation, when they appear between strongly LTR and strongly RTL letters. The W3C ITS recommendation has a few examples in its test suite that demonstrate its BIDI overrides, and those examples all deal with punctuation between English and Arabic text. - Brian
