On 2/12/15 8:50 AM, Pete Resnick wrote:
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?
That seems reasonable.
If so, does the text capture that?
Not quite. We capture the conclusions but not the reasoning. Let me see
if I can formulate some text...
Peter
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