[dokuwiki] Re: RTL issue

At 12:18 +0200 UTC, on 2007-10-16, Mehdi wrote:

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> if the line contains arabic characters it surrounds
> it by a <div style="direction:rtl">

Just curious: is there a specific reason to rely on CSS for this, instead of
HTML? You can simply add a dir="rtl" attribute, or, if the content is not
already grouped by some element, mark it up as <bdo> ("BiDirectional
Override"), like this: <bdo lang ="ar" dir="rtl">right to left content</bdo>.
See <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html#edef-BDO>.

You could still add *[dir=rtl] {direction:rtl} to the CSS, if you think there
might be user agents that don't have that as part of their built-in Style
Sheet. It shouldn't be necessary, but it probably won't hurt.


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