Re: Unicode controls vs markup for text direction

Richard

In the scenario's you describe why do we even need either mark-up or Unicode 
bidi control characters in the first place?

 >
 >   <div lang="ar"><img/> TXET CIBARA</div>


Shouldn't the *default* direction when displaying the glyphs for a string of 
Arabic or Hebrew characters always be RTL - even when that string is in the 
middle of other (LTR) text?  The characters themselves have a default 
directionality and imo there should be no need to indicate directionality
except where we need to over-ride the default (e.g. to display a Latin string
as RTL or an Arabic sting as LTR).


- Chris

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