Comment 12 for bug 1653234

Though the manual setting of the direction is a substantial improvement, this is in my opinion not sufficiently user friendly. This sounds to be a case of following the letter of the law, instead of what is reasonable behavior as far as the user is concerned. Further, this breaks files that used to work in earlier Inkscape versions. Note that there already is a HTML5 direction:auto tag, see https://www.w3.org/International/tests/repository/html5/the-dir-attribute/results-dir-auto, and there already is a discussion on whether to import this into css as well. Today all chat systems, web widgets, desktop native entry widgets on Windows and Linux/X11, mobile entry widgets, automatically choose the direction based on the contents. There is no reason why inkscape cannot do that.

Isn't it possible to set the direction to "auto" by default in terms of inkscape, and save this choice in a inkscape specific tag, but then export the resolved direction in the css direction tag.