From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 22786@debbugs.gnu.org, mohamed.hibti@gmail.com
Subject: bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:37:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ziuj8r4d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twksxhed.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:35:54 +1100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: mohamed.hibti@gmail.com, 22786@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:35:54 +1100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > That paragraph is in a separate frame. That frame could have a forced
> > left-to-right base direction.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "frame" here. DOM element?
Probably. Forget it, I ws mistaken: there are no frames on that page.
> Anyway, I looked at the Wikipedia source again, and it specifies "ltr"
> as the direction. And since shr respects those settings (now), perhaps
> we should just remove the hardcoded left-to-right default in eww now,
> and just let it be nil? Then the aljazeera site would work
> automatically.
>
> There might be pages that render less well, though, but we'd be
> following the Unicode recommendations (more)...
Removing the hardcoded value is probably a good idea (but maybe use it
as fallback if the HTML tag doesn't specify anything?).
However, note that support for this in shr is currently incomplete.
First, there's a 3rd value, "auto", which is unsupported -- it should
set bidi-paragraph-direction to nil. Moreover, a document can use
several directives -- 'dir', 'bdi', and 'bdo' -- on the element level,
and that is entirely unsupported now. What it means is that a page
that specifies special paragraph directions for some of its
paragraphs, and also mixes R2L and L2R text marked with 'bdi', will
not generally render correctly.
So I think for best results we should add support for the remaining
bidi directives. Adding support for "dir=auto" in the HTML tag is
almost trivial. To support the rest of the directives you need to add
bidirectional formatting control characters before and/or around the
text that is marked with these directives. (If needed, I can provide
the details about the controls you need to insert in each case.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-29 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 22:50 bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 1:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 10:16 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 18:18 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 18:24 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-25 5:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-25 11:08 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-25 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-26 5:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-26 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-28 4:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-28 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-28 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 2:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 4:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-01 0:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-01 8:55 ` Mohamed HIBTI
2016-02-29 2:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 4:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-29 23:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-01 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-02 17:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-02 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-01 0:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-01 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-02 17:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-02 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 5:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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