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Right-To-Left Text in Markup Languages
Bidirectional Text
Middle eastern languages such as Hebrew and Arabic are written predominantly right-to-left. Numbers are written with the most significant digit left-most, just as in European or other left-to-right text. Languages written in left-to-right scripts are often mixed in, so the complete document is bidirectional in nature, a mix of both right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR) writing. Text written in the Hebrew and Arabic languages is often referred to as bidirectional, or "bidi" for short. Naming Conventions The W3C Internationalization Group is now recommending to specification writers that terms such as "property-left" and "property-right" be avoided in favor of terms such as "property-before" and "property-after". When the writing direction changes, for example from left-to-right to either top-to-bottom or right-to-left, "before" and "after" are still correct and do not need to be modified. (This is true for most W3C specifications purposes. Your functionality may vary.) |
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