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Re: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18Feb 2003]
- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso at arbortext dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:00:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18Feb 2003]
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Paul Grosso wrote:
> 2. There is no markup delimiting the region that needs to change direction.
> Instead, the character data includes some Unicode code-points that are
> used to imply direction changing.
>
> In this case, what can we do? It's not a markup question any more.
> It's a question of "do magic because you found a magic byte combination
> in my character stream." (Can you tell what I think of this?) But I
> really do not see how this could possibly be something we could address
> via the DocBook DTD.
I don't have any personal experience with R-T-L languages but following
W3C memo notes some reason why it is better to capture text direction
change by markup and not by just characters.
http://www.w3.org/TR/unicode-xml/#Bidi
Maybe it will put some light into this issue.
Jirka
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