[Bug 18490] New: make any element with an explicit lang or dir attribute bidi-isolated by default

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18490

           Summary: make any element with an explicit lang or dir
                    attribute bidi-isolated by default
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5: The Markup Language (editor: Michael(tm) Smith)
        AssignedTo: mike@w3.org
        ReportedBy: amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


This idea came to me while editing Wikipedia, which is a massively multilingual
site.

An element that has an explicitly defined lang attribute can also have
different directionality from the enclosing element. Even more so for any
element that has an explicit dir attribute. It is also likely that an element
with a different directionality should be bidi-isolated using <bdi> or
"unicode-bidi: isolate".

Therefore, bidi isolation should be the default for such elements. Of course,
it should be possible to override it if that's what the user wants.

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Received on Sunday, 5 August 2012 06:04:32 UTC