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Subject: [OASIS Issue Tracker] (XLIFF-72) XLIFF 2.1 spec: the dir values are not sufficient for proper BiDi support
David Filip created XLIFF-72: -------------------------------- Summary: XLIFF 2.1 spec: the dir values are not sufficient for proper BiDi support Key: XLIFF-72 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/XLIFF-72 Project: OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC Issue Type: New Feature Components: other Affects Versions: 2.1_cos01 Environment: http://markmail.org/thread/mjlilczn64jvh2yw Reporter: David Filip Assignee: David Filip Fix For: 2.1_os I am looking at this: http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/v2.1/xliff-core-v2.1.html#dir The possible values are lrt, rtl, and auto (with auto "determined heuristically, based on the first strong directional character in scope, see [UAX #9]"). That is the same as the HTML dir attribute https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/dom.html#the-dir-attribute But that is not enough, because the direction based on the first char results in bad rendering at times. So the HTML standard added <bdi> and <bdo> And also CSS needed to add even more control, with unicode-bidi: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#direction The values in the CSS2 standard seem to be normal, embed, bidi-override, inherit But more are coming: normal, embed, isolate, bidi-override, isolate-override, plaintext (https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/#unicode-bidi) Mozilla and Chrome (and probably others will follow) already support these values: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/unicode-bidi Chrome also supports "initial" (I don't check about Firefox) So the proposed values for dir seem insufficient. Kind of a pity to release something that is already outdated, without learning from what others did... -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2.2#6258)
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