On 04-02-2002 11:15:25 John Cowan wrote:
>Outlook Express, at least the version you are using, has a bug; >it is failing to set the overall directionality to RTL even >though the first character is strongly RTL. The fact that >some implementations are buggy is hardly an argument against >either the use of bidi or Unicode. Of course the bidi algorithm permits using a higher-level protocol to set the paragraph direction (see note under rule P3, TUS 3.0 page 61). Thus one could argue that this isn't necessarily a bug in Outlook Express -- at least it isn't a violation of the standard. Bob
