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Re: docbook css questions



On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:59:13PM +0200, Hicham Amaoui wrote:
> Hi all,
> >
> >I don't think HTML has anything to do with bidi (and when we refer
> >to bidi here, we refer to the unicode bidi algorithm uax#9).
> >The only thing html has that is related and I'm aware of is 
> >"dir=rtl". 
> >
> Not true. A browser that displays RTL characters must use
> the Unicode bidi algorithm. See chapter 8 "Language information
> and text direction " of HTML4 specification on:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html


What I meant here is that bidi itself is a job of whatever
displays information, not storage. It's what shows on your
screen or your printer.. not what you input. Logical vs.
visual. So, yes, outside of the 'dir' attribute, there
isn't much there.

later
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