Re: A question on RWPM: why the 'metadata' tag? from Hadrien Gardeur on 2018-01-10 (public-publ-wg@w3.org from January 2018)

From: Hadrien Gardeur <hadrien.gardeur@feedbooks.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:38:29 +0100
To: Benjamin Young <byoung@bigbluehat.com>
Cc: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, W3C Publishing Working Group <public-publ-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CA+KS-11Lh+a=yxKP3rWd4ogope+1_36wcteifjjU5o=dH-Lnog@mail.gmail.com>

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> The I18N group will (as they did in that thread for Web Annotations)
> require the availability of both values. It's why there is both `lang` and
> `dir` in Web Annotations, Web App Manifest, etc.
>
>
> So. Worth reconsidering.
>

This is a bigger issue though than any specific format. This is something
that should be ideally dealt with at an UTF-8 level.

I know that there's something in JSON-LD/RDF for handling languages, is
there anything about direction as well?

Received on Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:39:16 UTC