Tagging transliterations from a specific script

[Michael Everson]

On 16 Mar 2011, at 23:03, David Starner wrote:

> Whether the overall structure of the page--whether images and frames and the like--go to the right or left is frequently determined by language tags;

In what applications?

> to determine it by the text on the page could force you to read an entire document before making that decision, and could be wrong if you had a lot of Latin text embedded in a Hebrew framework that should define the structure of the page.

I don't follow this. 

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/