Proposal for BiDi in terminal emulators

[Ken Whistler via Unicode]

On 1/31/2019 1:41 AM, Egmont Koblinger via Unicode wrote:
> I mean, for
> example we can introduce control characters that specify the language.

That is a complete non-starter for the Unicode Standard. And if the 
terminal implementation introduces such as one-off hacks, they will fail 
completely for interoperability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag

That belongs to the markup level, not to the plain text stream.

--Ken