RE: [bidi] BIDI in mail addresses

That's the next thing on my list. Why not?

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:53 PM
> To: Jony Rosenne
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [bidi] BIDI in mail addresses
> 
> 
> 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]
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>     If they had local trees --          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> I think I best switch to RELAX NG.
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