On 2/11/15 7:59 PM, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet wrote:
One thing that bothers me here is that we're not providing actionable
guidance to the vast majority of non-delusional profile authors. Are
we saying that it's not a good idea to say anything about
directionality at all?
In my mind there are two possibilities that a profile author ends up with:
1. My application doesn't care whether the strings I'm using appear
differently in different contexts. If a string looks one way to a person
on a LTR system and a different way to a person on an RTL system, that's
fine. I don't care what order the characters appear (for instance, if
numerals appear before or after punctuation).
or:
2. I want my strings to appear consistently. Numerals appearing on one
side of a dot on an LTR system and on the other side of a dot on an RTL
system would be a really bad thing.
If 1, your profile should say, "Directionality Rule: None".
If 2, then you want "Directionality Rule: Something", and unless you
have some magic specialized knowledge (that you don't, trust us), you
want "Directionality Rule: 5893". And, BTW, you had better be basing
things on IdentifierClass; 5893 is *not* sane if you're basing on
FreeformClass, and you probably meant to give answer #1 above.
Do we agree that the above is what the WG is saying? If so, does the
text capture that?
pr
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Pete Resnick<http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
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