Comment from the i18n review of: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/
Comment 4 At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0802-html5/ Editorial/substantive: S Owner: RI Location in reviewed document: 3.4.4 [http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-dir] Comment: Please consider allowing two new attribute values for the \"dir\" attribute: \'rlo\' and \'lro\'for dir. You do not need to remove the bdo element, but the new values will allow content authors to proceed to a scenario we described in the ITS 1.0 specification [http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/#directionality], It will also provide some additional power to the authors, since they will be able to attach dir=\"lro\" to a block element.
