- From: Aaron Parecki via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:14:04 +0000
- To: www-international@w3.org
aaronpk has just labeled an issue for https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation as "i18n-review": == Replace textDirection property with recommendation for including control characters in the text == The `textDirection` property is an unproven theoretical solution to setting the base text direction. My understanding is it was added to this spec before it had any real implementation experience. Currently, there are solutions in Unicode string encoding itself that can accomplish setting the base text direction. Using the existing Unicode solution has the added benefit of being supported by many systems without them doing any extra work. There is a great article by the i18n group that covers a handful of control characters and describes how to use them to set the base text direction: https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-unicode-controls My recommendation for the annotation spec is to drop the `textDirection` property and instead include a recommendation to use the appropriate control characters as necessary. See https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/336
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