Closed Bug 23648 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

Text Direction and Language attributes seem to be ignored

Categories

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Internationalization
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: Scott.Springer, Assigned: ftang)

Details

I wrote the following piece of HTML code to test the International features of HTML 4.0. I assumed that the code written as DIR="RTL" would render somewhat differently than the code specified as "LTR", however it didn't. I'm not sure whether or not this is correct, but I thought it might be something you might want to look into. Code to follow ---------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>HTML Multinational Test</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#FF0000"> <DIV ALIGN="left" LANG="en" DIR="LTR">This is text and <Q LANG="fr" DIR="RTL">This is quoted text!</Q>.</DIV> </BODY> </HTML>
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
8.2 Specifying the direction of text and tables: the dir attribute Attribute definitions dir = LTR | RTL [CI] This attribute specifies the base direction of directionally neutral text (i.e., text that doesn't have inherent directionality as defined in [UNICODE]) in an element's content and attribute values. It also specifies the directionality of tables. Possible values: LTR: Left-to-right text or table. RTL: Right-to-left text or table. Notice it state the DIR is used to specifies "the base direction" of "directionally neutral text" None of the text in the testing page is "directionally neutral text". All of them are STRONG left to right text according to Unicode database. Therefore. there are nothing wrong to render them the same way. Also, for <Q>, there are no specification how to display them for each language. It only stated in (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.2.2). Which leave it open for the user agent to decide how to render the quotation for each language. User agents should render quotation marks in a language-sensitive manner (see the lang attribute). Many languages adopt different quotation styles for outer and inner (nested) quotations, which should be respected by user-agents.
Verified as INVALID.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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