Re: [web-annotation] Base direction for annotations

well ... I recognize that I'm not the expert  in the field, that's why
 I ask questions. 
I agree with you, that the language is not the one that dictates the 
direction, but I assume that the scripts are. 

If I understood it correctly ... we have languages which use both RTL 
scripts (mainly based on arabic alphabet) and LTR script (probalby all
 others).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_alphabet

So .. this is my basic question. Does the language + script clearly 
identify the direction of the text?
If yes, I consider the textDirection to be redundant information. I 
don't really mean that we shouldn't have such a field, but I want to 
have it clearly stated in the standard, which is the relationship and 
what to do if both exists but are inconsistent?

My personal preference would be that language+script should be "the 
master" as this is already an ISO standard.   




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