Re: Please review: Strings and bidi

On 2017/08/18 23:34, Matitiahu Allouche wrote:
> In the last paragraph you write: "this may be a Latin transcription of a non-Latin string"
> 
> I am not sure that I understand the problem. The language being Hebrew, which is generally written in a RTL script, we can guess that the required direction is RTL. If there are such Latin transcriptions within Hebrew-script text, they should be treated just like actual English, French or Greek phrases included within a generally Hebrew text.
> 
> There could be a problem if all the Hebrew content is written as Latin transcription. In this case, the "lang":"he" may do more harm than good.

Tagging it as he-Latn would be the right thing to do.

Regards,    Martin.

Received on Sunday, 20 August 2017 07:44:02 UTC