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Webinar: Basics of bidi (bidirectional text)
by dwanders＠sonic.net 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear all, I am assisting in organizing a Unicode-hosted event on bidirectional text, which I know has been an issue for a number of projects. Below is information on a free webinar on bidi. Please forward to others who may be interested. Deborah (Debbie) Anderson Project lead, Script Encoding Initiative<https://scriptencodinginitiative.github.io/index.html>, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley “The basics of Bidi” on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 08:00 AM Pacific Time. 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. This is part 1 of a 2-part series, with the second more in-depth session to take place August 13, 2024. 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> Registration To register, please use this registration link<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1917159643449/WN_wtqmIMS-ScasVMSqM…>. 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. 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 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(a)unicode.org<mailto:events@unicode.org>.

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Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan University
by Titilola Babalola 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Hello everyone, I am forwarding this email to you all on behalf of Colleen Derkatch. Please feel free to send the link to potential candidates: I am writing to let you know that the English Department at Toronto Metropolitan University has just posted an ad for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities<https://hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/preview.cfm?posting_id=551913> (attached). We are reaching out both to potential applicants and to those who may know a good candidate for this position. Please circulate widely, and don’t hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions about the job or the application process. Best, Colleen Colleen Derkatch (she/her) Professor and Interim Department Chair Department of English<https://www.torontomu.ca/english/> Toronto Metropolitan University (recently renamed) Titi Aiyegbusi Department of English, University of Toronto [https://s-install.avcdn.net/ipm/preview/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-oran…]<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free.http://www.avast.com/<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…>

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