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+Network Working Group                                      H. Nussbacher
+Request for Comments: 1556                      Israeli Inter-University
+Category: Informational                                  Computer Center
+                                                           December 1993
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+                Handling of Bi-directional Texts in MIME
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+Status of this Memo
+
+   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
+   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
+   this memo is unlimited.
+
+Abstract
+
+   This document describes the format and syntax of the "direction"
+   keyword to be used with bi-directional texts in MIME.
+
+Description
+
+   The MIME standards (RFC 1521 and 1522) defined methods for
+   transporting non-ASCII data via a standard RFC822 e-mail system.
+   Specifically, the Content-type field allows for the inclusion of any
+   ISO language such as Arabic (ISO-8859-6) or Hebrew (ISO-8859-8).  The
+   problem is that the these two languages are read from right to left
+   and can have bi-directional data such as mixed Hebrew and English on
+   the same line.
+
+   Fortunately, ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) has
+   tackled this problem previously and has issued a technical report
+   called "Handling of Bi-Directional Texts".  ECMA TR/53, as it is
+   called, was used to update the Standard ECMA-48 which in turn was
+   used as the basis for ISO/IEC 6429 which was adopted under a special
+   "fast track procedure". It is based on this information that a new
+   character set is being defined which will indicate that the bi-
+   directional message is either encoded in implicit mode or explicit
+   mode.  The default is visual mode which requires no special character
+   set other than the standard ones previously defined by ISO-8859.
+
+   Examples of new character sets for bi-directionality support:
+
+            Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-6-e
+            Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-6-i
+            Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8-e
+            Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8-i
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+Nussbacher                                                      [Page 1]
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+RFC 1556                  Bi-directional Texts             December 1993
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+   The "i" suffix refers to implicit mode and the "e" suffix refers to
+   explicit mode.
+
+Implicit
+
+   Implicit directionality is a presentation method in which the
+   direction is determined by an algorithm according to the type of
+   characters and their position relative to the adjacent characters and
+   according to their primary direction.   The complete algorithm is
+   quite complex and sites wishing to implement it should refer to the
+   ECMA Technical Report for further details.
+
+Explicit
+
+   Explicit directionality is a presentation method in which the
+   direction is explicitly defined by using control sequences which are
+   interleaved within the text and are used for direction determination.
+   This presentation method is also defined in ECMA TR/53, which defines
+   three new control functions and updates 22 existing control functions
+   in the ECMA-48 standard.
+
+Visual
+
+   Visual directionality is a presentation method that displays text
+   according to the primary display direction only, which is left to
+   right.  All text is viewed in the same direction which is the primary
+   display direction.  The displaying application is not aware of the
+   contents direction and displays the text as if it were a uni-
+   directional text.  The composing application needs to prepare the
+   text in such a way that it will be displayed correctly.  No control
+   characters or algorithms are used to determine how the data is to be
+   displayed. This is the simplest of all methods and the default method
+   for use with MIME encoded texts.
+
+References
+
+   [ECMA TR/53] Handling of Bi-Directional Texts, European Computer
+                Manufacturers Association, 114 Rue du Rhone, CH-1204,
+                Geneva, Switzerland, June 1992.
+
+   [ISO-6429]   Information Technology - Control Functions for Coded
+                Character Sets, 3rd edition, December 15, 1992.
+
+   [ISO-8859]   Information Processing -- 8-bit Single-Byte Coded
+                Graphic Character Sets, Part 6: Arabic alphabet, ISO
+                8859-6, 1988.
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+Nussbacher                                                      [Page 2]
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+RFC 1556                  Bi-directional Texts             December 1993
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+   [ISO-8859]   Information Processing -- 8-bit Single-Byte Coded
+                Graphic Character Sets, Part 8: Latin/Hebrew alphabet,
+                ISO 8859-8, 1988.
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+   [RFC822]     Crocker, D., "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet
+                Text Messages", STD 11, RFC 822, UDEL, August 1982.
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+   [RFC1521]    Borenstein N., and N. Freed, "MIME (Multipurpose
+                Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for
+                Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet
+                Message Bodies", Bellcore, Innosoft, September 1993.
+
+   [RFC1522]    Moore K., "MIME Part Two: Message Header Extensions for
+                Non-ASCII Text", University of Tennessee,
+                September 1993.
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+Security Considerations
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+   Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
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+Author's Address
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+   Hank Nussbacher
+   Computer Center
+   Tel Aviv University
+   Ramat Aviv
+   Israel
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+   Fax: +972 3 6409118
+   Phone: +972 3 6408309
+   EMail: hank@vm.tau.ac.il
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+Nussbacher                                                      [Page 3]
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