Bidirectional Text Test 2 - Formatting Characters

This test is based on CSS2 section 9.10 and Chapter 3 of the Unicode Standard.

Note that Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages suggests that HTML UAs should ignore these characters.

In each box, all the lines should be the same.

ABCDEFGHI

‫ABCDEFGHI‬

‫ABCDEFGHI‬

‮IHGFEDCBA‬

‮IHGFEDCBA‬

‮IHG‫DEF‬CBA‬

‮IHG‮FED‬CBA‬

‮IHG‮FED‬CBA‬

‮IHG‭DEF‬CBA‬

גבא

אבג

‪אבג‬

‭גבא‬

גבא ABC והד

אבג ABC דהו

דהו ABC אבג

גבא ABC והד DEF טחז

אבג ABC דהו DEF זחט

אבג ABC דהו DEF זחט

אבג ‪ABC דהו DEF‬ זחט

זחט ‫DEF דהו ABC‬ אבג

דהו ‫ABC אבג‬ DEF זחט

דהו ‮CBA אבג‬ DEF זחט

אבג ‭ABC והד‬ DEF זחט

זחט ‭ABC והד‬ DEF אבג

גבא ABC והד DEF GHI טחז

אבג ABC דהו DEF GHI זחט


FED והד CBA גבא GHI טחז

אבג ‮ABC דהו DEF‬ GHI זחט

גבא ABC FED והד GHI טחז

אבג ABC ‮דהו DEF‬ GHI זחט

Note: This test does not test RLM or LRM, but it ought to.


(Back to CSS Testing Information, David Baron)

LDB, dbaron@dbaron.org, 2001-06-05

Modified and used with the author’s permission.