Re: Proposal for new direction attribute

The direction/dir transition plan is nice.

It's a bit disappointing, though, that neither of the following
suggestions was considered:
1. 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

2. Apply the direction according to language
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19888

Is there, maybe, a plan to consider this in the future?

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2013/2/20 Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>:
> Unicode 6.3 will shortly be released, and will contain new control codes
> (RLI, LRI, FSI, PDI) to enable authors to express isolation at the same time
> as direction in inline bidirectional text. The Unicode Consortium recommends
> that isolation be used as the default for all future inline bidirectional
> text embeddings.
>
> The i18n WG has been discussing how to ensure that HTML5 encourages and
> enables content authors to adopt and apply isolation *as the default*
> whenever they set direction on inline content, and discourage future use of
> dir=rtl or dir=ltr (which does not produce isolation).
>
> The proposal of the WG, with rationales, can be found at
> http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Html-bidi-isolation
>
> i18n WG folks, please let me know asap if you think this needs changing in
> some way.
>
> RI
>
>
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Received on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 14:01:57 UTC