[OOOPS! This works better if I set the proper MIME encoding... Sorry]
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> This contrasts a lot with the Unicode codepoints assigned to
> abstract characters, that are processable out of any
> contextual stylesheet, font or markup system, where its only
> semantic is in that case "private use" with no linguistic
> semantic and no abstract character evidence, and all with the
> same default character properties (including shamely the bidi
> properties needed to render and layout the fonted text,
In HTML, the default directionality of characters can be overridden with the
BDO tag. E.g.:
<BDO dir="rtl">hi!</BDO>
This should displays as a RTL string, with "!" on the left side and "h" on
the right side.
The same can be achieved also in plain-text Unicode, using RLO, LRO and PDF:
hi!
(U+202E U+0068 U+0069 U+0021 U+202C)
Ciao.
Marco
