need help with generating html source from the php

"macca" <ptmcnally@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Never worked with anything but English but I do know that text
> direction can be controlled with CSS e.g.
>
> p {
> direction:rtl;
>
> text-align:right
> }

That's so error-prone, it should be considered a bug, rather than a feature.
Browsers in languages that stream right-to-left already perform that
function.
So, if you use it the way you did, it'll switch the text back around the
wrong way.

Where that *is* useful is in proprietary HTML extensions, like
"<mymenu></mymenu>" which are not defined in the HTML/XHMTL spec.

"Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message
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> "Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
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>> Is it simply that the entire string is captured in the quotes and so
>> appears on the screen as right to left? If that is the case, then what
>> happens with word wrap?
>
> I don't understand the question.
> You had me up until word-wrap.
> When you echo a string, as shown - it spits the result out to std_out as
> composed.
> There's no word-wrap unless the client is doing something like that.
> Does that help answer the question?

As one example, if you have a table of fixed column width and allow
multi-line (a not uncommon situaton), then the text will wrap. What happens
if that text is supposed to be right to left? Treating it all as a one left
to right string will cause it to wrap incorrectly. Does that help you
understand the question?

>
>
>> Wouldn't it then break at the beginning of the sentence rather than in
>> the middle? (I have only worked on English sites).
>
> Huh? Not in any context I can think of.

"ggg fff eee ddd ccc bbb aaa" will wrap as, for example,

"ggg fff eee ddd"
"ccc bbb aaa"

because it assumes left to right. In a right to left language, aaa is the
the first word, bbb the second, etc. We would want it to wrap as:

"ddd ccc bbb aaa"
" ggg fff eee"

That is what I meant. How does one make that kind of thing happen. A
simple echo will wrap incorrectly.

Shelly

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>
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"macca" <ptmcnally@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Never worked with anything but English but I do know that text
> direction can be controlled with CSS e.g.
>
> p {
> direction:rtl;
>
> text-align:right
> }
>

Now THAT answers my question!

Shelly

"Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message
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> "macca" <ptmcnally@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:1190903345.329646.114740@w3g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
>> Never worked with anything but English but I do know that text
>> direction can be controlled with CSS e.g.
>>
>> p {
>> direction:rtl;
>>
>> text-align:right
>> }
>
> That's so error-prone, it should be considered a bug, rather than a
> feature.
> Browsers in languages that stream right-to-left already perform that
> function.

.....and that also answers my question!

Shelly

"Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
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> "Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message

>>> Is it simply that the entire string is captured in the quotes and so
>>> appears on the screen as right to left? If that is the case, then what
>>> happens with word wrap?
>>
>> I don't understand the question.
>> You had me up until word-wrap.
>> When you echo a string, as shown - it spits the result out to std_out as
>> composed.
>> There's no word-wrap unless the client is doing something like that.
>> Does that help answer the question?
>
> As one example, if you have a table of fixed column width and allow
> multi-line (a not uncommon situaton), then the text will wrap. What
> happens if that text is supposed to be right to left? Treating it all as
> a one left to right string will cause it to wrap incorrectly. Does that
> help you understand the question?

Yeah, I think so.
But for that - you're best answer can be found in the PHP docs at PHP.net -
if you're using PHP's wordwrap thingy.
I don't use it much.


> because it assumes left to right. In a right to left language, aaa is the
> the first word, bbb the second, etc. We would want it to wrap as:
>
> "ddd ccc bbb aaa"
> " ggg fff eee"
>
> That is what I meant. How does one make that kind of thing happen. A
> simple echo will wrap incorrectly.

You'll probably have to create your own function for that.
I don't think PHP is *that* internationalized yet.