Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz_at_gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:57:33 +0200

> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:08 +0100
> From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
> List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0
>
> HTML 4.0 and 4.0.1 Section 8.2 Paragraph 3 Section 2 states, "If a
> document does not contain a displayable right-to-left character, a
> conforming user agent is not required to apply the [UNICODE]
> bidirectional algorithm." The example file contains no right-to-left
> characters, so application of the bidi algorithm is optional.

What does it mean by "right-to-left character"? Does it mean
only characters whose bidi type is STRONG R? That is, do characters
of type Arabic Number not count?
Received on Sun Oct 16 2011 - 23:03:01 CDT

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