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

dir="auto" is not a panacea. The first strong characters in a string may be left-to-right and fool the algorithm. 

My concern here is that this requires the addition of LRM/RLM markers to data---data that may not be owned by the process assembling the wire format or that may have a field length restriction expressed in characters, code units, or bytes, etc. Adopting auto semantics and requiring the markers introduces (possibly cascading) data change. It also requires, in some cases, developers to introduce more markers into text, as when assembling messages.

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