Re: [bidi] BIDI in mail addresses
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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Jony Rosenne scripsit: > 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. Unfortunately, non-Latin identifiers have to interoperate with the existing infrastructure, where top-level names are encoded in Latin script. Replacing the ISO 3166 codes at the top of the domain hierarchy is not contemplated, so every host in the "il" domain will bear a name that is either purely LTR (as today) or bidirectional. -- My confusion is rapidly waxing John Cowan For XML Schema's too taxing: [email protected] I'd use DTDs http://www.reutershealth.com If they had local trees -- http://www.ccil.org/~cowan I think I best switch to RELAX NG.