- From: Behnam Esfahbod via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 18:25:01 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
Thanks, @tomerm, for filing an issue, but I think "text rendering in the context of a programming language" is out of the scope of the work of this Task Force. Of course, most of what we cover in ALReq will be useful for various use cases, including IDEs, but because of the focus being publication of web documents and e-books, we won't be able to cover programming languages or IDEs even as a special case. That said, I agree that IDEs are very inconsistent regarding handling RTL. GTK+-based editors usually apply an auto-direction-per-line (with cascading fallbacks) for any single ling, including comments. But, most other IDEs, stick with LTR paragraph direction. Now, with almost no real RTL (localized) programming language still available, I would say sticking with LTR would be a better decision for now. Besides usability issues, if there are any security concerns that may occur in real use cases, I suppose we can redirect the comment to Unicode's [UAX #31: Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax](http://unicode.org/reports/tr31/). -- GitHub Notification of comment by behnam Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/113#issuecomment-298071917 using your GitHub account
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