- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:24:30 +0000
- To: www International <www-international@w3.org>, public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
Unicode 6.3 will shortly be released, and will contain new control codes (RLI, LRI, FSI, PDI) to enable authors to express isolation at the same time as direction in inline bidirectional text. The Unicode Consortium recommends that isolation be used as the default for all future inline bidirectional text embeddings. The i18n WG has been discussing how to ensure that HTML5 encourages and enables content authors to adopt and apply isolation *as the default* whenever they set direction on inline content, and discourage future use of dir=rtl or dir=ltr (which does not produce isolation). The proposal of the WG, with rationales, can be found at http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Html-bidi-isolation i18n WG folks, please let me know asap if you think this needs changing in some way. RI -- Richard Ishida W3C http://rishida.net/
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