I18N-ISSUE-124: Wording on avoidance of Unicode control characters [HTML5-prep]

I18N-ISSUE-124: Wording on avoidance of Unicode control characters [HTML5-prep]

http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/124

Raised by: Addison Phillips
On product: HTML5-prep

3.2.6 Requirements relating to bidirectional-algorithm formatting characters
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/content-models.html#requirements-relating-to-bidirectional-algorithm-formatting-characters

This note:

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For convenience, where possible authors will likely prefer to use the dir attribute, the bdo element, and the bdi element, rather than maintaining the bidirectional-algorithm formatting characters manually.
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I would prefer if it were rephrased slightly to read:

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For convenience, where possible authors should use the dir attribute, the bdo element, and the bdi element, rather than maintaining the bidirectional-algorithm formatting characters manually.
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I would also like it to be removed from a note and made normative (hence the use of "should").

Received on Saturday, 23 July 2011 19:04:32 UTC