RE: Handling Hebrew & Arabic

Hi;

Even if I am not multi-lingual, a page in pure Hebrew will have some latin
text and numbers in it. And the latin text and numbers are ltr inside the rtl
for the Hebrew.

The way this is supposed to be set in browsers is using <span
div='LTR'>123.45</span> - but this gets complicated with resources that can
have text dynamically substituted in and that text could be Hebrew or English
(for example, a person's name).

How best to handle that? (It is probably best to ask someone at MS that is
familiar with bi-di, it's rules are very weird and they have probably hit
this before.)

--
thanks - dave


"HongQuan Wu[MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft.

Based on my investigation, I found the HtmlDirectionality is only a
resource key defined in the local resource file. We can use it to set the
dir property of a specific element to instruct the browse to display the
text in the correct direction. It is useful for the web page that only
contains one language. If you have a multilingual page, (in other words,
you need to display some text in a fixed language no matter what culture
info is set in the web browse), the <span dir¡­> is an option for you. But
please note the direction of the text can not be dynamically changed
according to different culture info from IE.

If there is anything unclear about this issue, please feel free to let me
know. Thanks a lot!

Thanks & Regards,

Frederick Wu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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