I would definitely agree that having a dir attribute would be a good thing. (would be even better if it were defined as xml:dir but... whatever).
I'm not so sure about unicode-bidi. - James Robert Sayre wrote: > [snip] > The i18n attributes seem needed to display text without a guess based on > xml:lang. Maybe we don't even need unicode-bidi. I don't think it would be > smart to take other features. > > Robert Sayre > > > >