- From: r12a via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 10:02:38 +0000
- To: public-annotation@w3.org
> @r12a shouldn't be the text direction easily identified from the script codes? It's a question we're asked a lot, and the answer is no. As a hack it sometimes works to infer the base direction from the language information when no real direction information is available, but it's unreliable. Note in particular that BCP47 strongly encourages you *not* to use script tags unless necessary to distinguish usages, and in fact has a mechanism to indicate that script should not be used with certain language tags. Moreover, language and direction are not the same thing. For example, how would you express 'auto' with language tags? -- GitHub Notification of comment by r12a Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/224#issuecomment-221223318 using your GitHub account
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