{"id":3016,"date":"2021-05-07T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2021-05-07T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:34:30","slug":"article-published-can-we-derive-base-direction-from-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2021\/05\/07\/article-published-can-we-derive-base-direction-from-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Article published: Can we derive base direction from language?"},"content":{"rendered":"<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.)<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 120%\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/International\/questions\/qa-direction-from-language\">Read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To comment on this article, <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%2Fwww.w3.org%2FInternational%2Fquestions%2Fqa-direction-from-language)%20%5Ben%5D%0A%0A\">raise a GitHub issue<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2021\/05\/07\/article-published-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":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-resource","category-translation","tag-qa-direction-from-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}