Tagging transliterations from a specific script
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Thu Mar 17 11:48:01 CET 2011
On 16 Mar 2011, at 23:24, David Starner wrote:
>>> Whether the overall structure of the page--whether images and frames and the like--go to the right or left is frequently determined by language tags;
>>
>> In what applications?
>
> In most of them, I believe. ar.wikipedia.org is one example of a page being flipped in an RTL environment.
That appears to be invoked thus:
<html lang="ar" dir="rtl" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
That is by the dir= attribute, not by an ISO 15924 script attribute as part of a language tag.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
More information about the Ietf-languages
mailing list