On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Andrew Wilson <atwilson@google.com> wrote: > In practice, just having a "directionality" attribute added to the API would > be insufficient for gmail, since gmail notifications need to alternate > between different directionalities (gmail may be intermixing multiple > strings with different directionality in the title or body of a notification > as described above). Gmail currently addresses this using unicode bidi > control characters in the text - is there a reason why this solution is > insufficient for other use cases, allowing us to omit an explicit attribute? I think the argument is that doing it via the Unicode characters is more difficult, but you probably need to use them if you have mixed content as you say. http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-controls -- http://annevankesteren.nl/Received on Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:52:47 UTC
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