On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:57:33 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:08 +0100 > > From: Richard Wordingham <[email protected]> > > List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 > > > > HTML 4.0 and 4.0.1 Section 8.2 Paragraph 3 Section 2 states, "If a > > document does not contain a displayable right-to-left character, a > > conforming user agent is not required to apply the [UNICODE] > > bidirectional algorithm." The example file contains no > > right-to-left characters, so application of the bidi algorithm is > > optional. > > What does it mean by "right-to-left character"? Does it mean > only characters whose bidi type is STRONG R? That is, do characters > of type Arabic Number not count? I don't know of an authoritative definition, but as Arabic numbers are stored left-to-right, and as to distinguish Western Arabic-Indic digits (AN) from Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (EN) smacks strongly of the UBA, I would say characters of type AN do not count as right-to-left characters. Richard.
