On Tue, August 17, 2010 14:41, Mathew Robertson wrote: > The problem itself is that bidi is hard and there are some corner > cases that arn't well defined -> basically, if you want to display LTR > text, on RTL layout, then you will probably find stuff that doesn't > work right (AFAIK this is sanctioned as undefined behaviour). >
It doesn't help that different browsers have somewhat different behaviour in this scenario. There has been discussions on what is needed in HTML5 to get better bidi support, but guess it will be a while before we see such things. Currently the best approach is to use markup correctly, and use bidi control characters as needed. Embedding LTR only text in a RTL block is likely to cause grief, as does RTL text in a LTR block -- Andrew Cunningham Research and Development Coordinator Vicnet State Library of Victoria Australia [email protected] ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
