Tsafrir Cohen wrote:
> * An HTML page does define the base direction. What if the page author
got
> it wrong?
This is not impossible, but I believe that somebody who writes Logical
Hebrew and tests the page at least once with any browser has to notice if
the page direction is screwed, so the likeliness that this happens is
small. URLs proving the contrary are welcome.
* For a text document you don't even have that. For instance: What is the
base direction of a mail message or a newsgroup message (encoded as either
iso8859-8-i or utf-8 )?
There is an SII standard saying that the base direction of a mail message
is determined by the directionality of its first strong character.
There are no standard that I know about Bidi in newsgroup messages.
Shalom (Regards), Mati
Bidi Architect
Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
IBM Israel
Phone: +972 2 5870999 ext. 1202 Fax: +972 2 5870333
Mobile: +972 52 554160
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