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Date: 2024-05-29 19:59:40+00:00
From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Webinar on Bidirectional Text (Basics of Bidi), June 25 2025, 0800 Pacific Time
Da: dwanders@sonic.net <dwanders@sonic.net>
Dear TEI-ers,
I am assisting in organizing a Unicode-hosted event on bidirectional text,
which I know has been an issue for a number of projects.
This webinar, “The Basics of Bidi”, will take place Tuesday, June 25,
2024 at 08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) and will include a live
question and answer portion. The entire session will be recorded. It is
part 1 of a 2-part series, with the second more in-depth session to take
place August 13, 2024.
Below is additional information, including how to register.
Background
A number of scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, write their letters
horizontally on a page or screen, running right to left. A complication for
these scripts is that other characters, such as digits, flow left-to-right,
and can occur on the same line, or even alongside other left-to-right text,
such as Latin. Text that handles both right-to-left and left-to-right text
is called “bidirectional” text (“bidi” in short). How to handle bidi text
on browsers and in other software is challenging for both general users and
implementers. This webinar will describe the basics with examples. It will
be followed by a live question-and-answer period. A more in-depth question
and answer session will take place August 13, 2024.
Registration
To register, please use this registration link
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1917159643449/WN_wtqmIMS-ScasVMSqMCUYOw>.
Feel free to share this announcement and link with any others who may be
interested.
As part of the registration, attendees can submit questions in advance.
Note: This webinar will be recorded and it will be available for viewing
later on the Unicode Consortium YouTube channel.
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQNrSepJnz8BjWT7lrKH9Tw>
About The Speakers
The main presenter is Richard Ishida, who has served as the
Internationalization Lead for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for 20
years. He also serves on the Unicode Editorial Committee and the Unicode
Script Encoding Working Group. A live question-and-answer period will
follow the talk, with Richard Ishida and Roozbeh Pournader fielding the
questions. Roozbeh Pournader is an internationalization engineer who has
been contributing to the Unicode Standard since 1999,
Additional Resources
Background Reading
https://unicode.org/faq/bidi.html
https://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/uba-basics
https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-scripts
https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-html#direction
https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/techniques/authoring-html.en#gsdirection
Additional articles from W3C:
https://www.w3.org/International/articlelist#direction
Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues who also
may be interested. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the
Unicode events team at events@unicode.org.
With best wishes,
Debbie Anderson
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