[i18n-activity] Trailing position of metadata (#1398)

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== Trailing position of metadata ==
6.4.2. Language and Direction Encoding
https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-2/#sctn-strings-langdir

The original draft of this section had the language tag and direction metadata preceding the string. At my (@aphillips) suggestion it was moved to the end of the string. This suggestion was due to the fact that implementations might be length constrained and thus prone to truncating the given string. Since metadata is less important than actual content, positioning the metadata at the end of the string seems preferable. In addition, rendering of Unicode language tag characters and bidi metadata might interfere with the text being transmitted being understood. The suffixing is also modeled on e.g. RDF's serialization.

That said, it's unclear if this is the right position or format for language/direction metadata. It does require introspection of the string and that introspection might be more expensive at the end.

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