Request for HTML Draft to support Multi Direction languages.
Erez Levin (erezl@dingo.co.il)
Sat, 05 Apr 1997 17:19:05 -0800
Dear sirs,
I want to bring this issue up.
Arabic, Hebrew and other languages are wrriten from right to left.
While The latest HTML draft does not have a special tag to specify the
direction and takes left to right as the default direction of the
language.
I think it is about time that such a tag (property) will be defined.
The suggestion is to add a property called Language with the following
features:
1. Direction - The direction from which the language is wrriten.
2. Default font - The default font for that language as in the OS (such
as Windows 95) installation.
3. Wrap - Direction of wrraping according to the dominent language.
So that if we combine Arabic/Hebrew with English in the same sentence,
which is most common we can write:
<Wrap=right>
<Language Direction=left font=TimesNewRoman>English text</Direction>
<Language Direction=Right font=HebFont>Hebrew text</Direction>
</Wrap>
The wrapping issue is also very important and should be concidered with
the "Dominent" language in which the HTML document was wrriten.
I would like to get your commenct on these important issues.
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Erez Levin
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