Re: Web Notifications I18N Review: [I18N-ISSUE-161, I18N-ISSUE-162]

Unlike a language tag, which is information about the text, direction 
information is an essential part of the core content of a text stream 
itself.

When direction information is required to disambiguate the layout of a 
text, the user cannot necessarily determine what the correct direction 
should have been, and therefore in some cases cannot know the content of 
the text. In contrast, assuming it's in a familiar language, the user 
can read a piece of text without having to be told the language (extreme 
degenerate cases excepted).

That is a crucial distinction.

A./

Received on Thursday, 28 June 2012 16:20:58 UTC