hixie: clarify that directionality affects native UI (whatwg r5637)

hixie: clarify that directionality affects native UI (whatwg r5637)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4512&r2=1.4513&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5636&to=5637

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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retrieving revision 1.4513
diff -u -d -r1.4512 -r1.4513
--- Overview.html 15 Oct 2010 21:28:59 -0000 1.4512
+++ Overview.html 15 Oct 2010 21:53:03 -0000 1.4513
@@ -1305,7 +1305,8 @@
     <ol>
      <li><a href="#links-forms-and-navigation"><span class="secno">10.6.1 </span>Links, forms, and navigation</a></li>
      <li><a href="#the-title-attribute-0"><span class="secno">10.6.2 </span>The <code title="attr-title">title</code> attribute</a></li>
-     <li><a href="#editing-hosts"><span class="secno">10.6.3 </span>Editing hosts</a></ol></li>
+     <li><a href="#editing-hosts"><span class="secno">10.6.3 </span>Editing hosts</a></li>
+     <li><a href="#text-rendered-in-native-user-interfaces"><span class="secno">10.6.4 </span>Text rendered in native user interfaces</a></ol></li>
    <li><a href="#print-media"><span class="secno">10.7 </span>Print media</a></ol></li>
  <li><a href="#obsolete"><span class="secno">11 </span>Obsolete features</a>
   <ol>
@@ -66437,6 +66438,17 @@
 
 
 
+  <h4 id="text-rendered-in-native-user-interfaces"><span class="secno">10.6.4 </span>Text rendered in native user interfaces</h4>
+
+  <p>User agents are expected to honor the Unicode semantics of text
+  that is exposed in user interfaces, for example supporting the
+  bidirectional algorithm in text shown in dialogs, title bars, pop-up
+  menus, and tooltips. Text from elements (either attribute values or
+  the contents of elements) is expected to be rendered in a manner
+  that honors <a href="#the-directionality">the directionality</a> of the element from
+  which the text was obtained.</p>
+
+
 
   <h3 id="print-media"><span class="secno">10.7 </span>Print media</h3>

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