- From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:20:15 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- CC: Norbert Lindenberg <w3@norbertlindenberg.com>, Doug Turner <dougt@mozilla.com>, Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com>, www-international@w3.org, public-web-notification@w3.org, "Olli.Pettay" <opettay@mozilla.com>
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./
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