Official documentation
Visual vs. logical ordering of text
W3C Internationalization, n.d.
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- What it is
- The W3C's short answer on why bidirectional text must be stored in logical order, and why visual order is a legacy workaround for browsers that did not support the Unicode bidirectional algorithm.
- How much weight it carries
- Written by the W3C Internationalization working group, the body that sets web standards for multilingual text. It is guidance for markup authors, not a description of any one dictation app.