Re: [bidi] BIDI in mail addresses

John Cowan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imaa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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