18:30
<ramsey>
Is anyone aware of any language tags that would return "bottom-to-top" when passed to icu4c's uloc_getLineOrientation() function?
18:31
<ramsey>
For example, I've tried pgl-Ogam (Primitive Irish, Ogham script), but that returns "top-to-bottom" (which maybe is wrong?)
18:32
<ramsey>
Also, I know this is a channel for ECMA-402, but I was looking into the Intl Locale Info Proposal, which has a getTextInfo() method that includes (character) direction, and I was wondering why "line direction" was left out, but maybe it's because there are no language tags that would produce "bottom-to-top" in ICU
18:35
<littledan>
Wow, this is a pretty advanced question. I wonder if people over on the Unicode Slack would have that background, about what's in CLDR
18:36
<ramsey>
I wasn't aware of the Unicode Slack. I had gone looking for some chat channel for them on IRC or Matrix. Do you have a link?
18:49
<littledan>
ramsey: If you DM me your email address, I'll make sure you get an invite
21:11
<sffc>
See some previous discussion on this topic here: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-intl-locale-info/issues/59
21:11
<sffc>
"textInfo.direction is a very simplified model of reality"
21:31
<ramsey>
sffc: Thanks!