Re: PRI #185 has been modified

Could you post any suggests for improvements to the online tools to
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/newticket?

The suggestion to show both directions at once is good (we could mark the
one that would be the "Auto" value).

(BTW, the tool isn't new; it's been around for a while.)

Thanks,

Mark
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On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 07:26, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Suggestion for the CLDR online tools.
>
> I saw that a new online tool allows testing the UBA implementation on
> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/bidi.jsp
> from the reference links found in this updated PRI.
>
> I note that there's a useful "ASCII hack" option available, but it
> would be convenient that this hack supports an escaping character like
> "\" to discard the hacked interpretation (notably for punctuations,
> like [] <> {} and |)
>
> Also, it would be also convenient to allow testing both the LTR and
> RTL contexts (base level 0 or 1) on the same output.
> In that case, the two tables of the result, "Source" and "Reordered"
> should be probaly indented with a left-margin of about 2em on the
> left.
>
> The header titles of these two tables should also avoid using a
> vertical separation with the table below it (the blue background would
> be contiguous to
> the blue background of the row headers below it). In fact they should
> proably not be h3 elements but just table captions, because they are
> contents related to the existting h3 section (whose heading shows the
> paragraph number)
>
> Below the h3 section for the paragraphe number, the small table
> showing the initial embedding level would remain unindented, with the
> two indented result tables below it.
>
> We could then fit in the same h3 section the second test with the
> other direction.
>
> Test combobox on the test form would then include not just "RTL" and
> "LTR", but also "Both", to exhibit on the same page the two
> reorderings.
>
> -- Philippe.
>
>
Received on Sat Sep 24 2011 - 12:20:47 CDT