{"id":3009,"date":"2021-03-24T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:23:11","slug":"for-review-can-we-derive-base-direction-from-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2021\/03\/24\/for-review-can-we-derive-base-direction-from-language\/","title":{"rendered":"For review: Can we derive base direction from language?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a href=\"https:\/\/w3c.github.io\/i18n-drafts\/questions\/qa-direction-from-language\">Can we derive base direction from language?<\/a> is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by <strong>Thursday 1 April<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people wonder whether it&#8217;s possible to obtain a definitive list of language tags which indicate a RTL base direction, so that there would be no need for separate direction metadata. This article looks into whether that is really feasible. (Spoiler: The W3C Internationalization Working Group believes it is not a feasible approach.)<\/p>\n<p>Please send any comments as github issues by <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/w3c\/i18n-drafts\/issues\/new?title=[questions\/qa-direction-from-language]%20%20BRIEF_TITLE_GOES_HERE&amp;body=%5Bsource%5D%20(https%3A%2F%2Fw3c.github.io%2Fi18n-drafts%2Fquestions%2Fqa-direction-from-language)%20%5Ben%5D%0A%0A\">clicking on this link<\/a>, or on \u201cLeave a comment\u201d at the bottom of the article. (This will add some useful information to your comment.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article Can we derive base direction from language? is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by Thursday 1 April. Sometimes people wonder whether it&#8217;s possible to obtain a definitive list of language tags which indicate a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2021\/03\/24\/for-review-can-we-derive-base-direction-from-language\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,205,4,206,14,15],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afrlreq","category-alreq","category-for-review","category-hlreq","category-w3csemanticweb","category-w3cwebarchitecture","tag-qa-direction-from-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}