Re: Fwd: I-D Action: draft-msporny-d-langtag-ext-00.txt

On 5/27/19 3:40 PM, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote:
> To jump on the bandwagon of pointing to places where this has already
> been handled, CSS has whole specification for writing modes from a
> presentational perspective:
> 
> https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/

I fail to see how that helps express these concepts in a unified way
across JSON, JSON-LD, RDF, and CBOR (to name a subset of the syntaxes
that we're concerned about). I mean, it is helpful to see the options...
it's not helpful in that none of those options or design patterns exist
for the syntaxes previously mentioned.

Here's some background, Gordon:

https://github.com/w3c/rdf-dir-literal/issues/3#issuecomment-496004819

.... and why we're having this discussion:

https://github.com/w3c/rdf-dir-literal/issues/3#issuecomment-496006350

.... and what the current proposed spec text in the Verifiable
Credentials Data Model specification regarding i18n states:

https://pr-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/w3c/vc-data-model/pull/641.html#internationalization-considerations

-- manu

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