Re: [w3c/manifest] Should dir and lang apply to name/description of app shortcuts? (#872)

> I tend to agree that global dir/lang might be doing more harm than good... we should perhaps drop them if they are not used anywhere.

See my above reply (_"I suppose we should not let the perfect (per-string settings) be the enemy of the good (global settings)."_) I'm more convinced of the value now, since learning that `lang` has uses outside of directionality.

It's almost always going to be the same language used throughout, since you'll have your manifest be written for a specific language, and all fields will be localized to the same one. The exception to this is that the "name" might be different to the other fields, since you commonly have an English title that doesn't get localized, while all the other bits get translated. Still, it's unlikely to matter, since you could set your whole manifest to, say, Japanese, and still have an English title that will probably display correctly (since Han unification doesn't apply to English), and _may_ be screen-read in English but with a Japanese accent, which may even be desirable.

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