[Bug 16983] New: i18n-ISSUE-124: Wording on avoidance of Unicode control characters

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16983

           Summary: i18n-ISSUE-124: Wording on avoidance of Unicode
                    control characters
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: addison@lab126.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


3.2.6 Requirements relating to bidirectional-algorithm formatting characters
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/content-models.html#requirements-relating-to-bidirectional-algorithm-formatting-characters

This note:

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For convenience, where possible authors will likely prefer to use the dir
attribute, the bdo element, and the bdi element, rather than maintaining the
bidirectional-algorithm formatting characters manually.
--

We would prefer if it were rephrased slightly to read:

--
For convenience, where possible authors should use the dir attribute, the bdo
element, and the bdi element, rather than maintaining the
bidirectional-algorithm formatting characters manually.
--

We would also like it to be removed from a note and made normative (hence the
use of "should").

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Received on Monday, 7 May 2012 18:19:50 UTC