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

This seems related to the discussion currently happening in https://github.com/heycam/webidl/pull/358, where we're attempting to add a shared primitive to Web IDL that all specs can use, and getting stuck. The point of contention is basically whether the pattern should be

```js
someAPI({
  lang: "...",
  dir: "...",
  label: "a string governed by the lang/dir"
  name: "another string, governed by the same lang/dir"
});
```

(the "`Localizable` base dictionary" solution)

or

```js
someAPI({
  label: {
    lang: "...",
    dir: "...",
    value: "a string governed by the lang/dir"
  },
  name: "another string, using the default lang/dir"
});
```

(the "`LocalizableString` union typedef" solution).

The former makes it easier to say that all strings have the same lang/dir. The latter allows more granular decision making, at the cost of verbosity.

I suppose you could even have both.

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