On 2019/01/13 03:50, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: > To reiterate, if you effectively require a span (even if you could simulate > that > differently) you are in the realm or rich text. The one big exception to that > is > bidi, because it is utterly impossible to do bidi text without text ranges. > Therefore, Unicode plain text explicitly violates that principle in favor of > achieving a fundamental goal of universality, that is being able to include > the > bidi languages.
Yes, and in HTML, where higher-level (span-based) mechanisms are available, it is preferred to use these rather than the bidi control characters. Regards, Martin.
