Richard Ishida wrote:

>
> Hi Tex,
>
> Some notes from a quick first read...
>
> [1] A lot of the expected readers of this Q&A are content authors who
> are struggling to learn about internationalization of web technology.
> Apart from the fact that they're unlikely to come across an example of
> it, I think listing languages like Hindi under Arabic script with no
> qualification is likely to create confusion for the (non-script guru)
> readers of this page - particularly as you don't mention it in the
> section "Languages that are not right-to-left" - This applies for
> other languages cited too.

I removed Hindi. I don't know which other languages you think are problematic.
I don't know all of the scripts languages are listed in, nor the probability
of one or another script being used.

>
> [2] Indonesian/Jawi needs some attention. As I understand it, Jawi is
> another name for the old 'Malay' script based on the Arabic script which
> was used to write the Malay language. Indonesian is a (fairly recent)
> derivation of Malay language. Today, however, Malay and Indonesian
> pretty much use Latin script (indeed only ASCII characters). So I think
> this is incorrect, but also I think it is misleading/confusing for the
> average reader of this page without further qualification.

removed.

>
> [3] "Languages that are not right-to-left" -> "Languages written in
> scripts that are not right-to-left ". Also I think a lot of expected
> readers will find it useful these days if you include indic scripts
> here. 'Thai' could be commuted to 'South-East Asian'. You could add
> Georgian and Armenian, if you like.

done.

>
> [4] "In actual fact, they are written vertically top-to-bottom in
> lengths of a single character, and therefore appear to be written as
> right-to-left.)" -- as I said before this is not necessarily the case.
> I have a Taiwanese newspaper here that does RTL text that is not a
> single character deep. (See the attachment - esp the caption of the
> photo to the left.) (Note also that this is bidirectional text - see
> 8.6% - which has the % on the right, unlike Arabic/Hebrew.)

I thought you were the one that had me add the one char deep. oh well.
removed.

> [5] Please try to describe what's useful to the reader in this context
> behind links such as Omniglot, Rosetta Project, etc.

not this week. I think it's obvious if you go there, but if you don't think
its clear enough, the we can delete the links.

>
> Hope that helps,
> RI
>
> ============
> Richard Ishida
> W3C
>
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>
> See the W3C Internationalization FAQ page
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions.html
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: public-i18n-geo-request@...
> > [mailto:public-i18n-geo-request@...] On Behalf Of Tex Texin
> > Sent: 06 August 2003 09:26
> > To: qalam@yahoogroups.com; GEO
> > Subject: RTL languages
> >
> >
> >
> > OK, I am ready for another round of abuse. The next draft of
> > the Q&A for "which languages are RTL?" is here:
> >
> > http://www.i18nguy.com/temp/W3C%20I18N%20Q&A%20Which%20languag
> es%20are%20right-to-left.html
>
> I would be glad for your comments, and in particular your review of the
> languages and scripts listed, and suggestions for others.
>
> Note reference to "bidi" is removed!
>
> tex
>
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