<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hey, I'm not fully aware of this mechanism but I do remember typing the same characters on the keyboard in the different layouts produce angle brackets pointing to different directions (same goes for all the different brackets/parenthesis).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Regarding XML, usually XML tags are in English, the only thing that can be in Hebrew are the attributes' values, so that case is highly plausible.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Basically it should be that way also for Arabic and Persian so the translation in those languages can be a good indicator for this situation.<br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font color="#990000">Yaron</font></span><font color="#330000"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> <font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Shahrabani</span></font></span></font></span><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#FF0000"><</font></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:monospace">DevOps</span> - <span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Hebrew translator</span></font><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#FF0000">></font></span></font></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 5:51 PM Chusslove Illich <<a href="mailto:caslav.ilic@gmx.net">caslav.ilic@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm further realising that an additional problem might be that the<br>
character '<' in a right-to-left text would actually have the meaning<br>
of the character '>' in a left-to-right text. Is this so?<br>
<br>
In that case, it is not clear to me what exactly is the correct<br>
solution. E.g. what does XML standard say in this case? What do XML<br>
parsers do in practice? Are there separate Unicode points for some<br>
"directed" characters wrt. RTL/RTL?<br>
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Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)<br>
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