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

Richard Wordingham <[email protected]> Thu, 30 May 2019 18:33:01 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.languages
Message-ID <20190530183301.0a0c6938@JRWUBU2>
On Thu, 30 May 2019 09:53:52 -0700
"Doug Ewell" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Richard Wordingham wrote:
>   
> >>> And what if you want to have English text in right-to-left
> >>> paragraphs?  
> >>
> >> I assumed we were sticking to real-life use cases. That said, in
> >> BabelPad I get the desired result with a Latin-script line by
> >> prefixing it with RLO.  
> >
> > Surely RLO would result in English being written backwards?  
>  
> Sorry, isn't that what you meant?

I thought the main issue here was controlling the directionality of
'paragraphs', i.e. the 'base direction'.

Richard.