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This article was revised substantially.

Translators should consider retranslating the whole article.

This article was revised to provide more clarity. More examples were added, and a new approach was taken, using images for examples and providing links to live code.

The term ‘directional context’ was replaced with ‘base direction’, the meaning and impact of that was expressed better. It also shows a little more clearly the types of problem the bidi algorithm needs help with, and how the proposed solutions related to each other.

Thanks to Andrew Osobka and Kamil Wiśniewski the article “What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated).

Thanks to the Arabic Translation team‏, WTB Language Group, the article “What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup” has now been translated into Arabic (language negotiated).

Thanks to Oleg Gaivoronsky the translation of the article “What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup” has now been updated in Hebrew (language negotiated).

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Describes some of the basic principles underlying how the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm works, and some scenarios where inline markup or codes are needed to correctly render web content written in a right-to-left script. Applies to both XHTML/HTML and XML documents.

By Richard Ishida, W3C.