Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Serialization of natural language in data formats such as JSON [I18N] (#178)

A lot of great points have been made in this thread. I'm personally not convinced that there is any single "right" solution. 

It seems that if we want to create a compact data representation for strings, associating lang, direction, and other meta-data about the string, then this encoding has to be as maximally-portable across systems as possible, which leads me to think it must be some new representation of a string literal. That of course, is asking for a huge change across all programming environments and applications--not likely to happen, but neat to dream about--or even start some activity there, perhaps in Unicode.

For a serialization memory layout that associates lang, direction, etc., metadata about strings, I don't offer a strong opinion, though I have a weak opinion: keep it simple, or it will likely be too much of a burden to get much traction. For example, I think a simple dictionary with fields at parallel depths would work fine for most applications, e.g., { lang: .., dir: .., stringvalue: ... }.

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