[web-annotation] Issue: Replace textDirection property with recommendation for including control characters in the text marked as i18n-review

aaronpk has just labeled an issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation as "i18n-review":

== Replace textDirection property with recommendation for including 
control characters in the text ==
The `textDirection` property is an unproven theoretical solution to 
setting the base text direction. My understanding is it was added to 
this spec before it had any real implementation experience. 

Currently, there are solutions in Unicode string encoding itself that 
can accomplish setting the base text direction. Using the existing 
Unicode solution has the added benefit of being supported by many 
systems without them doing any extra work. There is a great article by
 the i18n group that covers a handful of control characters and 
describes how to use them to set the base text direction: 
https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-unicode-controls

My recommendation for the annotation spec is to drop the 
`textDirection` property and instead include a recommendation to use 
the appropriate control characters as necessary.

See https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/336

Received on Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:14:13 UTC