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Notes on Techniques
Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts

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$Date: 2009/08/27 14:16:07 $
This document provides additional information for the document:
http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/

Introduction

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Authoring with localization in mind

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  1. Making bidi localization easier
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  1. Making bidi localization easier

Setting up a right-to-left page

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  1. Setting up a right-to-left page
Browser-specific notes

IE Opera   Both IE and Opera change the position of the scroll bar when rtl is set on the html or the body tag. IE also mirrors the direction of objects on some Javascript dialog boxes, but only when rtl is set on the html tag.

TestsResults
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  1. Setting up a right-to-left page
Browser-specific notes

IE Opera   Both IE and Opera change the position of the scroll bar when rtl is set on the html or the body tag. IE also mirrors the direction of objects on some Javascript dialog boxes, but only when rtl is set on the html tag.

Tests Results
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  1. Setting up a right-to-left page
  2. Choosing a character encoding
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  1. Setting up a right-to-left page
  2. Choosing a character encoding
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  1. Setting up a right-to-left page

Changing direction on block elements

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  1. Changing the direction of a block element
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  1. Changing the direction of a block element

Mixing text direction inline

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  1. Mixing text direction inline
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  1. Mixing text direction inline
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  1. Mixing text direction inline
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  1. Mixing text direction inline
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  1. Mixing text direction inline
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  1. Mixing text direction inline

Handling parentheses & other mirrored characters

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  1. Handling parentheses and other mirrored characters

Overriding the Unicode bidirectional algorithm

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  1. Overriding the Unicode bidirectional algorithm