[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Right-to-left with Markup

• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:22:23 -0700

At 02:46 AM 28/09/01 +1000, Rick Jelliffe wrote:

>I am not an expert in Arabic internationalization: indeed, I cannot really
>figure out how a right-to-left language fits in with markup (do we
>symmetrically-swap the open and close delimiters of tags if the
>element names are in Arabic?)  

I did some Arabic on some powerpoint slides recently (I used
to have some grasp of the language 30 years ago) and boy it's
tough to make marked-up Arabic look sane at all.  Obviously
Hebrew too.  I suspect that people writing software for XML 
in Semitic languages are going to want to use the technique 
pioneered all these years ago by Arbortext and Author/Editor 
of putting little tag glyphs in, rather than trying to decide 
where to put the slash on the end-tag. -Tim

• References:
  • Fw: Has XML run its course?
    • From: Peter Cameron <peter.cameron@e...>
  • Has W3C run its course? (Was: Has XML run its course?)
    • From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>

• Prev by Date: Re: Has XML run its course?
• Next by Date: RE: Has XML run its course?
• Previous by thread: Has W3C run its course? (Was: Has XML run its course?)
• Next by thread: RE: Has XML run its course?
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread