[activitystreams] Issue: It should be possible to indicate the default base direction for natural language values marked as i18n

r12a has just labeled an issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams as "i18n":

== It should be possible to indicate the default base direction for 
natural language values ==
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[This issue has support from others in the i18n WG.]

In addition to language information, each annotation may need an 
optional indicator of overall base direction when dealing with scripts
 such as Arabic, Hebrew, Thaana, etc.

For example, the following summary will not display correctly unless 
the application doing the display knows that the base direction needs 
to be rtl. (As it is, the 'W3C' will appear to the right, as shown 
here, rather than to the left of the Hebrew summary.) 

```
{
  "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "name": "A simple note",
  "type": "Note",
  "summary": "פעילות הבינאום, W3C"
}
```
Some way should be provided to enable identification of the default 
base direction for an item containing natural language.  (Note that 
this is far better handled as metadata rather than by using Unicode 
control codes or requiring extra markup for every single value.)





See https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/336

Received on Friday, 8 July 2016 14:01:40 UTC