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Re: linux X-serving MS applications
I know Eli is informed, but his recent mail may be mis-read
by the less informed, so:
>This is only one of about a dozen (!) of technical reasons. You will
>not find even ONE among all the BiDi experts, who prefer visual. It
>includes the experts of Accent (Kivun), IBM (Mati Allouch and Israel
>Gidaly who wrote some books about BiDi), Microsoft (yes, some of the
>biggest experts in BiDi are from Microsoft), Mark David and other
>people from international standardization institutes, and of course
>the Israel Standards Institute.
>
>BTW: someone suggested contacting Missrad HaTikshoret and asking
>them to set a standard for the Hebrew on the Net. Well, they are
>already represented in standardization comitees of the Israel
>Standards Institute (I am too), and even sponsor some of the
>activity. There are already comitees discussing the Hebrew on the
>Net (e.g. HTML), and some standards are already in final drafts.
>As I mentioned, there is a consensus regarding to the superior of
>logical.
Just to clarify (again, Eli, I *know* you know this):
The implicit directionality (aka logical) is already standardized,
in many places. Starting with Unicode 2.0 which contains an implicit
BiDi algorithm, going through RFC2070 which specifically dictates
this algorithm for BiDi HTML text, through HTML 4, and many others.
What's in final draft is the Israeli HTML standard (SI4281) which
draws from RFC2070, and some other standards at the SII; however
it is well established, INTERNATIONALLY, that BiDi languages should
use implicit directionality for text exchange. Mind you, this is
not only for Hebrew...
Doron Shikmoni