RE: [bidi] BIDI in mail addresses

I don't agree with the assumption made in http://www.gnomon.org.uk/bidi-ambiguities.txt: 

"This paper assumes a standard display model that has been proposed
for the display of identifiers such as IDNs, Internatialized Resource
Identifiers (IRIs) and Internationalized Mail Addresses (IMAs).

The standard display model is that an Internet identifier is rendered
according to the Unicode bidirectional algorithm, in a left-to-right
context."

In my view, a right to left UI will use a right-to-left context, at least for right-to-left identifiers.

In my view, this is the whole point. Our aim should be for a Hebrew or Arabic user to be able to use the internet in his own language, without the need to learn English or the Latin script.

Tricky use of mixed RTL/LTR identifiers is of secondary importance and I support any restriction required to allow them in both RTL and LTR contexts.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Davis
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:44 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [bidi] BIDI in mail addresses
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> There is a discussion of bidi in mail addresses which could 
> really use some feedback from people on this group. I'll try 
> to summarize the situation:
> 
> 1. There are current restrictions on the contents of a domain 
> name, which are intended to prevent ambiguous rendering 
> (where the same visual appearance could have two different 
> actual representations, such as 123ABC.org, which could 
> either be "CBA123.org" or "123CBA.org" internally.)
> 
> 2. However, there are still cases where this doesn't work, 
> which have been discussed on the list. And the restrictions 
> may or may not be felt to be reasonable (which could use 
> feedback from here).
> 
> A paper has been published on this, at 
> http://www.gnomon.org.uk/bidi-> ambiguities.txt.
> 
> The archive 
> is at 
> http://www.imc.org/ietf-imaa/mail-archive/threads.html. Look 
> at the items titled ...Bidi Issues...
> 
> If you have any feedback, please join the group: 
> http://www.imc.org/ietf-imaa/
> 
> Mark
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