Re: Bidi issues
Roy Badami <[email protected]>
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> 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