Hi Mordechai, Andrew already offered you some good advice. I absolutely agree that you shouldn't use graphics for the Hebrew text.
Most major browsers support bidi text quite well these days (though I can't vouch for user agents on mobile devices). Since it seems you will generally be dealing with Hebrew text embedded inline in English text, I would suggest you read "What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup" http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/ to understand the ins and outs of this. I can't think of anything you need to add to the <head> element in this case. Hope that helps, RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mordechai Peller > Sent: 17 November 2005 11:06 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WSG] Bi-directional text > > I need to mark-up a document (XHTML) written in English, but > which includes some Hebrew words. I'm trying to decide the following: > > 1. How should the words be marked-up: <span>, <dfn>, or just > leave them in the flow? > 2. Is the <bdo> element needed, or just the "dir" attribute? > 3. How should the transliteration and translation be > included: title attribute or following in the flow? > 4. How's the browser support for bidi? > 5. What should be included in the <head> element? > > Thanks > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
