35.1618, Media: Webinar on Bidirectional Text (Basics of Bidi), June 25 2024, 0800 Pacific Time

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Subject: 35.1618, Media: Webinar on Bidirectional Text (Basics of Bidi), June 25 2024, 0800 Pacific Time

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Date: 30-May-2024
From: Deborah Anderson [dwanders at sonic.net]
Subject: Webinar on Bidirectional Text (Basics of Bidi), June 25 2024, 0800 Pacific Time


“The Basics of Bidi” is a webinar on bidirectional text, a problem for
many working with scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.
This free webinar 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-Scas
VMSqMCUYOw#/registration .
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.

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-basic
s
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#gsdirec
tion
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 at unicode.org.

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Writing Systems




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