[Fwd: Re: OpenDocument and Bidi Support?] (fwd)

Jonathan Ben Avraham <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:55:57 +0300 (IDT)
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Hi Ivrix Discussions members,
This might be of interest to some of you. I have already asked Matti 
Allouche to join the discussion as I believe that he is one of the most 
authoratative persons in the BIDI community.

  - yba


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Hi Robert,
The short answer is that any document format specification that supports RTL 
languages must have at least two text formatting specifications; base direction 
(e.g. <div dir="rtl">) and alignment (e.g. <df align="right">).

If you don't have these, then the document cannot be rendered correctly by any 
application.

You cannot guess the base direction or alignment from the character encoding.

Here are the reasons why this is so -

1. Mixed characters in one paragraph

Both modern Hebrew an Arabic use Latin character words embedded in native text. 
An example is the sentence "IBM replaces CEO". When you translate this sentence 
into Hebrew or Arabic, especially for a technical audience, you leave "IBM" in 
Latin characters and you translate "replaces CEO" into native. This leaves you 
with a text string that starts with Latin characters but is in fact native. If 
you use a herustic that assumes that a paragraph starting with Latin should be 
displayed LTR, then the letters IBM will be displayed incorrectly - at the left 
side if the sentence instead of the right side. So this example breaks what is 
usually called the "bidi algoritm" heuristic for deciding base direction.

Although some native authors do transliterate commonly known acronyms such as 
"IBM", this is rarely done for more technical terms that do not have commonly 
used translations in either Hebrew or Arabic, such as "TTL", "UDP", "TCP", 
"HTTP", "SSL", etc. These are almost never translated or even transliterated.


2. Mixed paragraphs in a structure

A structure such as a table in a Hebrew document often has elements that are 
entirely in Latin characters. Since the document is Hebrew, you want the 
columns of the table to be displayed from right to left - that is, without 
respect to character encoding. To do this you need the equivalent of a 
dir="rtl" tag at some level, either in the table element, or more conveniently, 
in a more general element such as a div element.

Note that this is the case even when the document has no Hebrew characters at 
all but is intended for a Hebrew reading audience that expects the row headers 
to be on the right side of the table.

There is no heuristic that can correctly guess the readers expected direction, 
so you have to allow for it in the document format.

For an example of this, see http://he.openoffice.org. Try removing the <div 
style="text-align: right" dir="rtl"> in the page and see just how badly the 
page gets messed up. There is no heurustic that an application can use to 
reconstitute the direction and alignment tags if they are missing from the 
document format.


3. Alignment

Contrary to what most of us assume when we start working in BIDI, text 
alignment has nothing to do with character encoding. There are many instances 
when you want Hebrew text aligned left and English text aligned right. This is 
a page layout issue and cannot be guessed from the characters.


Now there are many substitutes or workarounds that people have tried to suggest 
in the past that would allow reconstruction of base direction and even 
alignment, such as having the application stuff into the text extra RLO's or 
LRO's that the user does not explicitly type. Besides being an incorrect use of 
these characters, they corrupt the text. None of these substitutes is workable.

Regards,

   - yba


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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:25:14 +0300
From: Alan Yaniger <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <[email protected]>
Subject: [Fwd: Re: OpenDocument and Bidi Support?]

Hi Yonatan,

These came to me tonight. I don't know anything about ODF format, other than 
the facts that OOo uses it, and that I don't have any problems with Hebrew 
documents in ODF.

On the other hand, do we have any interest in making ODF an ISO standard?

Should we get involved in this matter at all?

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Alan Yaniger
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Rob, Patrick,

I'm not an expert regarding the details of bidi support, but OpenDocument has 
several writing-mode attributes that allow switching the writing direction:

Section 15.2.19 describes a style:writing-mode attribute which specifies the 
default writing direction of a page.

Section 15.5.36 describes a style:writing-mode attribute which specifies the 
default writing direction of a paragraph.

Section 15.7.8 describes a style:writing-mode attribute which specifies the 
writing direction of a section.

Section 15.8.13 describes a style:writing-mode attribute which specifies the 
writing direction of a table.

To the best of my knowledge, these attribute interact with the bidi support 
of UNICODE. I will try to find out some more details from our BIDI experts. 
However, since I'm travelling, I cannot promise how long this will take. For 
that reason, help from others that are familiar with BIDI is very welcome.

In general, I agree to Patrick that since OOo support BIDI, OpenDocument 
supports it as well.

Michael


robert_weir-r/[email protected] wrote On 04/25/06 19:37,:
> 
> Hi Patrick,   Part of the confusion in my mind is that XHTML does have 
> explicit bidi indications, in the form of dir="rtl" attribute.  XHTML 
> supports Unicode as well.  So why two ways of specifying Bidi in the 
> same standard?  To a non-I18N expert, the immediate question is, "What 
> is ODF missing by not having a dir attribute?"  "Nothing" is a fine 
> answer.  But my working assumption is the SII director saw something he 
> didn't like.  Perhaps some more complicated scenario involving tables, 
> mixed languages or something like that.  I'll see if I can find out more.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Rob
> 
> 
> Patrick Durusau <patrick-Q/[email protected]> wrote on 04/25/2006 01:25:08 PM:
> 
>  > Rob,
>  >
>  > Err, but ODF is based upon XML which requires Unicode as the character
>  > set. Unicode specifies the direction of rendering for all the characters
>  > in Unicode.
>  >
>  > That is to say that Unicode and not ODF specifies rendering such as
>  > right to left. Whether an application supports that or not, is an
>  > entirely different question. But it is not an XML format question.
>  >
>  > For example, I could send you an XML file that contains Hebrew
>  > characters and unless your application supports bidi "display" (and you
>  > read Hebrew), it isn't going to look like much. But, if you run that
>  > file through an XML parser, it validates just fine.
>  >
>  > I am not unsympathetic (having studied Hebrew back in the days of almost
>  > non-existent support everywhere) to the notion that bidi representation
>  > should be required. However, I don't think ODF is the place to require
>  > it. We make few demands of applications based on ODF and I would like to
>  > see that continue.
>  >
>  > I have a close friend at the Westminster Hebrew Institute in
>  > Philadelphia who uses OpenOffice all the time for Hebrew texts. But,
>  > note that is an application and not ODF per se.
>  >
>  > Does that help?
>  >
>  > Hope you are having a great day!
>  >
>  > Patrick
>  >
>  > PS: I think we need to ask SII to clearly distinguish between formats,
>  > like ODF, and applications, like OpenOffice. If we were writing a
>  > specification for the latter, then requiring bidi support would be
>  > understandable. But we are not writing a specification for an
>  > application, only a format.
>  >
>  > robert_weir-r/[email protected] wrote:
>  >
>  > > I'm putting out these note to a couple quarters.  As you know, ODF is
>  > > going through an ISO standardization vote.  The ballot closes May 1st.
>  > >  We just received a note from the Standardization Director of the
>  > > Standards Institution of Israel (SII), which said, in part:
>  > >
>  > > We, in  Israel, have a problem with this standard as it does not 
> include
>  > > requirements/specifications for bi-directional writing (bidi). As you
>  > > know (I hope) the Hebrew and Arabic languages are written from
>  > > right-to-left. We are planning to vote no and I would appreciate it if
>  > > you could send this e-mail on to the relevant person, as we may not 
> have
>  > > enough votes regarding this issue but we believe it critical to the
>  > > success of this standard.
>  > >
>  > > Now, my impression was that ODF did have support for Complex Text
>  > > Layouts, including Bidi, vertical writing, Thai, Hindi, etc.  Does
>  > > anyone know of any ODF issues in this area?  I'd hate to get a
>  > > negative vote if Bidi support in fact was adequate, but not clear to
>  > > the reader of the specification.  Does anyone have an example Hebrew
>  > > bidi document in ODF format, or better-yet something with mixed
>  > > content?  If we can provide a detailed technical response to SII, we
>  > > may be able to turn this vote around.
>  > >
>  > > I'm cc'ing the manager of the Hebrew OpenOffice page
>  > > (http://he.openoffice.org/), since he may have the most direct
>  > > experience in this area.  Certainly, any Israeli national with
>  > > expertise in this area who can write to IIS on this issue would be a
>  > > benefit.  I can provide additional contact info.
>  > >
>  > > Finally, please treat this note with some sensitivity.  If you recall,
>  > > we had a similar internationalization issue from Japan earlier in the
>  > > process and we were able to turn around their vote by explaining in
>  > > more detail how the specification accomplished what they were looking
>  > > for.  The best approach was a tactful, technical and timely response.
>  > >  The ISO ballot closes May 1st, so there isn't much time.
>  > >
>  > > Thank!
>  > >
>  > > -Rob
>  > >
>  >
>  > --
>  > Patrick Durusau
>  > [email protected]
>  > Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
>  > Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
>  > Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005
>  >
>  > Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
>  >
>  >

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Hi Patrick,   Part of the confusion in my mind is that XHTML does have 
explicit bidi indications, in the form of dir="rtl" attribute.  XHTML 
supports Unicode as well.  So why two ways of specifying Bidi in the same 
standard?  To a non-I18N expert, the immediate question is, "What is ODF 
missing by not having a dir attribute?"  "Nothing" is a fine answer.  But 
my working assumption is the SII director saw something he didn't like. 
Perhaps some more complicated scenario involving tables, mixed languages 
or something like that.  I'll see if I can find out more.

Thanks,

-Rob


Patrick Durusau <patrick-Q/[email protected]> wrote on 04/25/2006 01:25:08 PM:

> Rob,
> 
> Err, but ODF is based upon XML which requires Unicode as the character 
> set. Unicode specifies the direction of rendering for all the characters 

> in Unicode.
> 
> That is to say that Unicode and not ODF specifies rendering such as 
> right to left. Whether an application supports that or not, is an 
> entirely different question. But it is not an XML format question.
> 
> For example, I could send you an XML file that contains Hebrew 
> characters and unless your application supports bidi "display" (and you 
> read Hebrew), it isn't going to look like much. But, if you run that 
> file through an XML parser, it validates just fine.
> 
> I am not unsympathetic (having studied Hebrew back in the days of almost 

> non-existent support everywhere) to the notion that bidi representation 
> should be required. However, I don't think ODF is the place to require 
> it. We make few demands of applications based on ODF and I would like to 

> see that continue.
> 
> I have a close friend at the Westminster Hebrew Institute in 
> Philadelphia who uses OpenOffice all the time for Hebrew texts. But, 
> note that is an application and not ODF per se.
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> Hope you are having a great day!
> 
> Patrick
> 
> PS: I think we need to ask SII to clearly distinguish between formats, 
> like ODF, and applications, like OpenOffice. If we were writing a 
> specification for the latter, then requiring bidi support would be 
> understandable. But we are not writing a specification for an 
> application, only a format.
> 
> robert_weir-r/[email protected] wrote:
> 
> > I'm putting out these note to a couple quarters.  As you know, ODF is 
> > going through an ISO standardization vote.  The ballot closes May 1st. 

> >  We just received a note from the Standardization Director of the 
> > Standards Institution of Israel (SII), which said, in part:
> >
> > We, in  Israel, have a problem with this standard as it does not 
include
> > requirements/specifications for bi-directional writing (bidi). As you
> > know (I hope) the Hebrew and Arabic languages are written from
> > right-to-left. We are planning to vote no and I would appreciate it if
> > you could send this e-mail on to the relevant person, as we may not 
have
> > enough votes regarding this issue but we believe it critical to the
> > success of this standard.
> >
> > Now, my impression was that ODF did have support for Complex Text 
> > Layouts, including Bidi, vertical writing, Thai, Hindi, etc.  Does 
> > anyone know of any ODF issues in this area?  I'd hate to get a 
> > negative vote if Bidi support in fact was adequate, but not clear to 
> > the reader of the specification.  Does anyone have an example Hebrew 
> > bidi document in ODF format, or better-yet something with mixed 
> > content?  If we can provide a detailed technical response to SII, we 
> > may be able to turn this vote around.
> >
> > I'm cc'ing the manager of the Hebrew OpenOffice page 
> > (http://he.openoffice.org/), since he may have the most direct 
> > experience in this area.  Certainly, any Israeli national with 
> > expertise in this area who can write to IIS on this issue would be a 
> > benefit.  I can provide additional contact info.
> >
> > Finally, please treat this note with some sensitivity.  If you recall, 

> > we had a similar internationalization issue from Japan earlier in the 
> > process and we were able to turn around their vote by explaining in 
> > more detail how the specification accomplished what they were looking 
> > for.  The best approach was a tactful, technical and timely response. 
> >  The ISO ballot closes May 1st, so there isn't much time.
> >
> > Thank!
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> 
> -- 
> Patrick Durusau
> [email protected]
> Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
> Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
> Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005
> 
> Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! 
> 
> 

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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi Patrick, &nbsp; Part of the confusion
in my mind is that XHTML does have explicit bidi indications, in the form
of dir=&quot;rtl&quot; attribute. &nbsp;XHTML supports Unicode as well.
&nbsp;So why two ways of specifying Bidi in the same standard? &nbsp;To
a non-I18N expert, the immediate question is, &quot;What is ODF missing
by not having a dir attribute?&quot; &nbsp;&quot;Nothing&quot; is a fine
answer. &nbsp;But my working assumption is the SII director saw something
he didn't like. &nbsp;Perhaps some more complicated scenario involving
tables, mixed languages or something like that. &nbsp;I'll see if I can
find out more.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">-Rob</font>
<br>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>Patrick Durusau &lt;patrick-Q/[email protected]&gt; wrote
on 04/25/2006 01:25:08 PM:<br>
<br>
&gt; Rob,<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Err, but ODF is based upon XML which requires Unicode as the character
<br>
&gt; set. Unicode specifies the direction of rendering for all the characters
<br>
&gt; in Unicode.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; That is to say that Unicode and not ODF specifies rendering such as
<br>
&gt; right to left. Whether an application supports that or not, is an
<br>
&gt; entirely different question. But it is not an XML format question.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; For example, I could send you an XML file that contains Hebrew <br>
&gt; characters and unless your application supports bidi &quot;display&quot;
(and you <br>
&gt; read Hebrew), it isn't going to look like much. But, if you run that
<br>
&gt; file through an XML parser, it validates just fine.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; I am not unsympathetic (having studied Hebrew back in the days of
almost <br>
&gt; non-existent support everywhere) to the notion that bidi representation
<br>
&gt; should be required. However, I don't think ODF is the place to require
<br>
&gt; it. We make few demands of applications based on ODF and I would like
to <br>
&gt; see that continue.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; I have a close friend at the Westminster Hebrew Institute in <br>
&gt; Philadelphia who uses OpenOffice all the time for Hebrew texts. But,
<br>
&gt; note that is an application and not ODF per se.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Does that help?<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Hope you are having a great day!<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Patrick<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; PS: I think we need to ask SII to clearly distinguish between formats,
<br>
&gt; like ODF, and applications, like OpenOffice. If we were writing a
<br>
&gt; specification for the latter, then requiring bidi support would be
<br>
&gt; understandable. But we are not writing a specification for an <br>
&gt; application, only a format.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; robert_weir-r/[email protected] wrote:<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; &gt; I'm putting out these note to a couple quarters. &nbsp;As you
know, ODF is <br>
&gt; &gt; going through an ISO standardization vote. &nbsp;The ballot closes
May 1st. <br>
&gt; &gt; &nbsp;We just received a note from the Standardization Director
of the <br>
&gt; &gt; Standards Institution of Israel (SII), which said, in part:<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; We, in &nbsp;Israel, have a problem with this standard as it
does not include<br>
&gt; &gt; requirements/specifications for bi-directional writing (bidi).
As you<br>
&gt; &gt; know (I hope) the Hebrew and Arabic languages are written from<br>
&gt; &gt; right-to-left. We are planning to vote no and I would appreciate
it if<br>
&gt; &gt; you could send this e-mail on to the relevant person, as we may
not have<br>
&gt; &gt; enough votes regarding this issue but we believe it critical
to the<br>
&gt; &gt; success of this standard.<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; Now, my impression was that ODF did have support for Complex
Text <br>
&gt; &gt; Layouts, including Bidi, vertical writing, Thai, Hindi, etc.
&nbsp;Does <br>
&gt; &gt; anyone know of any ODF issues in this area? &nbsp;I'd hate to
get a <br>
&gt; &gt; negative vote if Bidi support in fact was adequate, but not clear
to <br>
&gt; &gt; the reader of the specification. &nbsp;Does anyone have an example
Hebrew <br>
&gt; &gt; bidi document in ODF format, or better-yet something with mixed
<br>
&gt; &gt; content? &nbsp;If we can provide a detailed technical response
to SII, we <br>
&gt; &gt; may be able to turn this vote around.<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; I'm cc'ing the manager of the Hebrew OpenOffice page <br>
&gt; &gt; (http://he.openoffice.org/), since he may have the most direct
<br>
&gt; &gt; experience in this area. &nbsp;Certainly, any Israeli national
with <br>
&gt; &gt; expertise in this area who can write to IIS on this issue would
be a <br>
&gt; &gt; benefit. &nbsp;I can provide additional contact info.<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; Finally, please treat this note with some sensitivity. &nbsp;If
you recall, <br>
&gt; &gt; we had a similar internationalization issue from Japan earlier
in the <br>
&gt; &gt; process and we were able to turn around their vote by explaining
in <br>
&gt; &gt; more detail how the specification accomplished what they were
looking <br>
&gt; &gt; for. &nbsp;The best approach was a tactful, technical and timely
response. <br>
&gt; &gt; &nbsp;The ISO ballot closes May 1st, so there isn't much time.<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; Thank!<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; -Rob<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; -- <br>
&gt; Patrick Durusau<br>
&gt; [email protected]<br>
&gt; Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface<br>
&gt; Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model<br>
&gt; Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! <br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; <br>
</font></tt>
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Rob,

Err, but ODF is based upon XML which requires Unicode as the character 
set. Unicode specifies the direction of rendering for all the characters 
in Unicode.

That is to say that Unicode and not ODF specifies rendering such as 
right to left. Whether an application supports that or not, is an 
entirely different question. But it is not an XML format question.

For example, I could send you an XML file that contains Hebrew 
characters and unless your application supports bidi "display" (and you 
read Hebrew), it isn't going to look like much. But, if you run that 
file through an XML parser, it validates just fine.

I am not unsympathetic (having studied Hebrew back in the days of almost 
non-existent support everywhere) to the notion that bidi representation 
should be required. However, I don't think ODF is the place to require 
it. We make few demands of applications based on ODF and I would like to 
see that continue.

I have a close friend at the Westminster Hebrew Institute in 
Philadelphia who uses OpenOffice all the time for Hebrew texts. But, 
note that is an application and not ODF per se.

Does that help?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

PS: I think we need to ask SII to clearly distinguish between formats, 
like ODF, and applications, like OpenOffice. If we were writing a 
specification for the latter, then requiring bidi support would be 
understandable. But we are not writing a specification for an 
application, only a format.

robert_weir-r/[email protected] wrote:

> I'm putting out these note to a couple quarters.  As you know, ODF is 
> going through an ISO standardization vote.  The ballot closes May 1st. 
>  We just received a note from the Standardization Director of the 
> Standards Institution of Israel (SII), which said, in part:
>
> We, in  Israel, have a problem with this standard as it does not include
> requirements/specifications for bi-directional writing (bidi). As you
> know (I hope) the Hebrew and Arabic languages are written from
> right-to-left. We are planning to vote no and I would appreciate it if
> you could send this e-mail on to the relevant person, as we may not have
> enough votes regarding this issue but we believe it critical to the
> success of this standard.
>
> Now, my impression was that ODF did have support for Complex Text 
> Layouts, including Bidi, vertical writing, Thai, Hindi, etc.  Does 
> anyone know of any ODF issues in this area?  I'd hate to get a 
> negative vote if Bidi support in fact was adequate, but not clear to 
> the reader of the specification.  Does anyone have an example Hebrew 
> bidi document in ODF format, or better-yet something with mixed 
> content?  If we can provide a detailed technical response to SII, we 
> may be able to turn this vote around.
>
> I'm cc'ing the manager of the Hebrew OpenOffice page 
> (http://he.openoffice.org/), since he may have the most direct 
> experience in this area.  Certainly, any Israeli national with 
> expertise in this area who can write to IIS on this issue would be a 
> benefit.  I can provide additional contact info.
>
> Finally, please treat this note with some sensitivity.  If you recall, 
> we had a similar internationalization issue from Japan earlier in the 
> process and we were able to turn around their vote by explaining in 
> more detail how the specification accomplished what they were looking 
> for.  The best approach was a tactful, technical and timely response. 
>  The ISO ballot closes May 1st, so there isn't much time.
>
> Thank!
>
> -Rob
>

-- 
Patrick Durusau
[email protected]
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
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I'm putting out these note to a couple quarters.  As you know, ODF is 
going through an ISO standardization vote.  The ballot closes May 1st.  We 
just received a note from the Standardization Director of the Standards 
Institution of Israel (SII), which said, in part:
We, in  Israel, have a problem with this standard as it does not include 
requirements/specifications for bi-directional writing (bidi). As you 
know (I hope) the Hebrew and Arabic languages are written from 
right-to-left. We are planning to vote no and I would appreciate it if 
you could send this e-mail on to the relevant person, as we may not have 
enough votes regarding this issue but we believe it critical to the 
success of this standard. 
Now, my impression was that ODF did have support for Complex Text Layouts, 
including Bidi, vertical writing, Thai, Hindi, etc.  Does anyone know of 
any ODF issues in this area?  I'd hate to get a negative vote if Bidi 
support in fact was adequate, but not clear to the reader of the 
specification.  Does anyone have an example Hebrew bidi document in ODF 
format, or better-yet something with mixed content?  If we can provide a 
detailed technical response to SII, we may be able to turn this vote 
around. 
I'm cc'ing the manager of the Hebrew OpenOffice page 
(http://he.openoffice.org/), since he may have the most direct experience 
in this area.  Certainly, any Israeli national with expertise in this area 
who can write to IIS on this issue would be a benefit.  I can provide 
additional contact info.
Finally, please treat this note with some sensitivity.  If you recall, we 
had a similar internationalization issue from Japan earlier in the process 
and we were able to turn around their vote by explaining in more detail 
how the specification accomplished what they were looking for.  The best 
approach was a tactful, technical and timely response.  The ISO ballot 
closes May 1st, so there isn't much time.
Thank!
-Rob

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<p><font size=2 face="    Arial">I'm putting out these note to a couple
quarters. &nbsp;As you know, ODF is going through an ISO standardization
vote. &nbsp;The ballot closes May 1st. &nbsp;We just received a note from
the Standardization Director of the Standards Institution of Israel (SII),
which said, in part:</font>
<p><font size=2 face="    Arial">We, in</font><font size=3 face="    Arial">
</font><font size=2 face="    Arial">&nbsp;Israel, have a problem with
this standard as it does not include</font><font size=3 face="    Arial">
</font><font size=2 face="    Arial"><br>
requirements/specifications for bi-directional writing (bidi). As you</font><font size=3 face="    Arial">
</font><font size=2 face="    Arial"><br>
know (I hope) the Hebrew and Arabic languages are written from</font><font size=3 face="    Arial">
</font><font size=2 face="    Arial"><br>
right-to-left. We are planning to vote no and I would appreciate it if</font><font size=3 face="    Arial">
</font><font size=2 face="    Arial"><br>
you could send this e-mail on to the relevant person, as we may not have</font><font size=3 face="    Arial">
</font><font size=2 face="    Arial"><br>
enough votes regarding this issue but we believe it critical to the</font><font size=3 face="    Arial">
</font><font size=2 face="    Arial"><br>
success of this standard. </font>
<p><font size=2 face="    Arial">Now, my impression was that ODF did have
support for Complex Text Layouts, including Bidi, vertical writing, Thai,
Hindi, etc. &nbsp;Does anyone know of any ODF issues in this area? &nbsp;I'd
hate to get a negative vote if Bidi support in fact was adequate, but not
clear to the reader of the specification. &nbsp;Does anyone have an example
Hebrew bidi document in ODF format, or better-yet something with mixed
content? &nbsp;If we can provide a detailed technical response to SII,
we may be able to turn this vote around. </font>
<p><font size=2 face="    Arial">I'm cc'ing the manager of the Hebrew OpenOffice
page (http://he.openoffice.org/), since he may have the most direct experience
in this area. &nbsp;Certainly, any Israeli national with expertise in this
area who can write to IIS on this issue would be a benefit. &nbsp;I can
provide additional contact info.</font>
<p><font size=2 face="    Arial">Finally, please treat this note with some
sensitivity. &nbsp;If you recall, we had a similar internationalization
issue from Japan earlier in the process and we were able to turn around
their vote by explaining in more detail how the specification accomplished
what they were looking for. &nbsp;The best approach was a tactful, technical
and timely response. &nbsp;The ISO ballot closes May 1st, so there isn't
much time.</font>
<p><font size=2 face="    Arial">Thank!</font>
<p><font size=2 face="    Arial">-Rob</font>
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