Just in case somebody has missed this:
There is a public review issue very much related to this thread:
http://www.unicode.org/review/pri205/, Proposed addition of AL MARK
and LEVEL DIRECTION MARK,
http://www.unicode.org/review/pri205/pri205-background.html.
The latter proposed addition is
On 10/15/2011 05:19 PM, Andreas Prilop wrote:
I return to
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m10/att-0059/1999-12-31.html
Microsoft programs (Internet Explorer, MS Word), display this as
31/12/1999
Other programs (Firefox, Opera, OpenOffice) display this as
1999/12/31
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:42:02 +0200
From: Simon Montagu smont...@smontagu.org
List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0
On 10/15/2011 05:19 PM, Andreas Prilop wrote:
I return to
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m10/att-0059/1999-12-31.html
Microsoft programs (Internet
On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:42:02 +0200
From: Simon Montagusmont...@smontagu.org
List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0
On 10/15/2011 05:19 PM, Andreas Prilop wrote:
I return to
Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org:
Btw, according to my testing, the current Firefox displays this as
31/12/1999. I don't have Opera or OO to check there, but it's possible
that the OP was using old versions of these that were still using the
old Unicode data base.
It still displays as
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:35:39 +0200
From: Simon Montagu smont...@smontagu.org
CC: unicode@unicode.org
Sorry, I think I confused you here. I quoted the expected rendering in
ASCII digits, but the testcase in fact uses Arabic-Indic digits.
There's no difference in rendering of ASCII
Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org:
However, it could be that the confusion is mine, and it stems from the
fact that the logical order of these characters was not stated by the
OP. Is it
1999/12/31
or
31/12/1999
?
The logical order in the document that was cited is 1999/12/31
(١٩٩٩/١٢/٣١). I
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:40:02 +0100
From: Peter Krefting pe...@opera.com
Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org:
Btw, according to my testing, the current Firefox displays this as
31/12/1999. I don't have Opera or OO to check there, but it's possible
that the OP was using old versions of
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:09:06 +0100
From: Peter Krefting pe...@opera.com
Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org:
However, it could be that the confusion is mine, and it stems from the
fact that the logical order of these characters was not stated by the
OP. Is it
1999/12/31
or
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
However, it could be that the confusion is mine, and it stems
from the fact that the logical order of these characters was not
stated by the OP.
You can read the source text, no?
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Btw, according to my testing, the current Firefox displays this
this is
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m10/att-0059/1999-12-31.html
as 31/12/1999.
Firefox 7 displays 1999/12/31.
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:08:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andreas Prilop prilop4...@trashmail.net
List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Btw, according to my testing, the current Firefox displays this
this is
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:57:33 +0200
Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org wrote:
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:08 +0100
From: Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com
List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0
HTML 4.0 and 4.0.1 Section 8.2 Paragraph 3 Section 2 states, If a
document does not
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:19:29 +0200 (CEST)
Andreas Prilop prilop4...@trashmail.net wrote:
I return to
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m10/att-0059/1999-12-31.html
Microsoft programs (Internet Explorer, MS Word), display this as
31/12/1999
Other programs (Firefox,
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:08 +0100
From: Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com
List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0
HTML 4.0 and 4.0.1 Section 8.2 Paragraph 3 Section 2 states, If a
document does not contain a displayable right-to-left character, a
conforming user agent is
I return to
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m10/att-0059/1999-12-31.html
Microsoft programs (Internet Explorer, MS Word), display this as
31/12/1999
Other programs (Firefox, Opera, OpenOffice) display this as
1999/12/31
NB:
I do not ask how to write unambiguously. (This
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