Re: Bidi issues

Roy Badami <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imaa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 > This is all true, but how much of a burden would it be?  Would Arabic
 > local parts even want to use the European digits?  The middle-eastern
 > scripts chapter of the Unicode standard suggests that languages that use
 > Arabic scripts usually prefer the Arabic-Indic or Extended Arabic-Indic
 > digits, which would be allowed at the end of a local part.
 > final-digit problem would in practice only be a problem for Hebrew.
 > That would be a drastically smaller affected population (by a factor of
 > around 40 I think).

Arabic-Indic digits are of bidi type AN, so IIRC they are not allowed
at the end of a localpart that contains right-to-left characters.

	-roy
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