Re: LANG as an attribute

Jon_Bosak@Novell.COM
Mon, 31 Jul 95 19:19:44 EDT

[Glenn Adams:]

> 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.

Yup. I forgot.

Jon

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