Re: Bidi issues

I have sent a message to the unicode bidi mailing list, summarizing the issues
and pointing people to this discussion. I hope there will be some feedback from
bidi users on the usability issues and whether the restrictions would be onerous
or insignificant.

Mark
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Badami" <[email protected]>
To: "IETF IMAA list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, 2003 Sep 29 03:26
Subject: Re: Bidi issues


>
>  > Doh.  Okay, right-to-left local parts cannot end with digits if the bidi
>  > check is used at all.  How annoying is that?  Apparently it was deemed a
>  > price worth paying in the case of domain labels, but maybe the annoyance
>  > factor would be higher in the case of local parts.
>
> I suspect it may be more annoying than with domain names, though I
> have no idea whether users of these scripts would actually want
> localparts ending in digits.  It's clearly not the end of the world if
> it's prohibited, but I'm just not sure (at the moment) that I see the
> need to prohibit it.
>
> Of course, even though [email protected] displays unambiguously, the
> localpart DEF2 by itself does not.  (2DEF would display identically
> under the usual assumptions).  However, I don't see why it can't be
> left up to the e-mail administrator at ABC.com to decide whether the
> cost of the potential confusion is outweighed by the utility of such
> identifiers.
>
>  > On the other hand, how troublesome would it be to allow LTR and RTL
>  > letters to be adjacent in local parts?
>
> I don't immediately see that they would be troublesome.  Generally
> adjacent and separated by punctuation is no different.
>
> -roy
>