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- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:08:44 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17866
Summary: i18n-ISSUE-124: Wording on avoidance of Unicode
control characters
Product: HTML WG
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: other Hixie drafts (editor: Ian Hickson)
AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
QAContact: contributor@whatwg.org
CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
This was was cloned from bug 16983 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-05-07 18:19:00 +0000
Original reporter: Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com>
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#0 Addison Phillips 2012-05-07 18:19:46 +0000
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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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We 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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We would also like it to be removed from a note and made normative (hence the
use of "should").
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#1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-05-08 00:31:26 +0000
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"should" means that it's a requirement. If it's a requirement, it's not for
convenience. Why would we make it a requirement?
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#2 Addison Phillips 2012-05-08 00:43:53 +0000
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Indeed it is normative (and we noted that in our comment). Since this directed
at authors as a requirement upon them. The weasel wording surrounding the
normative SHOULD will not be ignored ;-)
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#3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-05-10 17:53:54 +0000
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Yes but why?
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