> Code points 2066, 2067, and 2068 are unassigned. I presume you mean
> U+202B RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING (RLE) and U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL
> FORMATTING.
As Roozbeh pointed out, he means the characters added that provide bidi isolation.
The W3C Internationalization WG recommends that you use markup in favor of Unicode bidi control characters in an HTML (or other markup) context. HTML5 has a health warning about this. See:
... and especially the note at the bottom of the section.
The new Unicode controls and the <bdi> element mirror each other purposefully. There is also a proposal to add new 'dir' attribute values for isolation (to make writing isolated blocks easier). Unicode bidi controls are suitable for use in plain text applications where markup is not available.
Addison
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect (Lab126)
Chair (W3C I18N WG)
Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.
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