Re: LANG as an attribute

Glenn Adams (glenn@stonehand.com)
Mon, 31 Jul 95 18:45:12 EDT

Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 18:22:01 EDT
From: Jon_Bosak@novell.com

It has nothing to do with the
ordinary rendering of a single language in either direction and is not
an issue in mixing languages that run in the same direction.

Unfortunately it is not quite so simple. In monolingual Hebrew and
Arabic texts, one still has to deal with bidirectionality since numbers
are written left-to-right inside right-to-left text.

For those interested in BIDI issues, please review my proposals for
bidi support in HTML:

http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML_WG/html-gw-95q2.messages/0266.html
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML_WG/html-gw-95q2.messages/0296.html
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML_WG/html-gw-95q2.messages/0301.html

Glenn