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Re: [Ietf-languages] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-msporny-d-langtag-ext-00.txt

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Thu, 30 May 2019 16:54 UTC

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From: Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>
To: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham=40ntlworld.com@dmarc.ietf.org>, ietf-languages@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-msporny-d-langtag-ext-00.txt
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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 don't really want to keep this sub-thread alive much longer, unless a
real-world scenario emerges.)
 
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