- From: r12a via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:23:03 +0000
- To: www-international@w3.org
r12a has just labeled an issue for https://github.com/w3c/activitypub as "i18n": == 'Actor' and language/direction == https://w3c.github.io/activitypub/#actor-objects The 'Actor' object contains several fields that can contain natural language text. It would be useful to indicate in the spec how to add language and direction information to these. Specifically, name, preferredUsername, and summary. The first two (name and preferredUsername) might be questionable: these are opaque Unicode strings that might be considered language independent. The summary, though, is more interesting. Language and base direction should be documented, even if only to refer to JSON-LD mechanisms and/or the bidi text in ActivityStreams 2.0. Language often makes a presentational difference for strings, even if the language information isn't used for other purposes. In particular, it is helpful in selecting fonts to avoid the ransom note effect in CJK languages. See https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/126
Received on Wednesday, 5 October 2016 10:23:09 UTC