fantasai wrote: > fantasai wrote: >> Patrick Aljord wrote: >>> hey all, >>> >>> My site in Arabic from right to left works great. But if I want to use >>> some ltr strings in English, it messes up with my parenthesis like in >>> this list: >>> >>> http://www.democralist.com/lists/show/61 >>> >>> Check out the first two items of the list, the parenthesis are wrong. >>> The problem is that the list is generated from the database so there >>> is no way to guess if it's displaying arabic rtl or english ltr. Any >>> idea how to solve this? >> Since your site is in Arabic, you should add dir="rtl" to the <html> element. >> Like this: >> >> <html dir="rtl"> >> >> That should solve most of your bidi problems. > > Err, but it won't solve the one right there. For that you can use the > right-to-left mark, ‏ on either side of the Latin, like this: > > 2. ‏algora‏ (100) > > This breaks up the Latin bits so they don't connect into one long > left-to-right > text run.
Another option is to set "unicode-bidi: embed" on an element around "algora". ~fantasai ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
