RE: [bidi] BIDI in mail addresses

The browser can make the context LTR if there is no RTL character in the
text.

We should first think of our destination, and only after that about
intermediate steps, otherwise we won't get very far.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Badami [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:01 PM
> To: Jony Rosenne
> Cc: 'Roy Badami'; 'Mark Davis'; 'John Cowan'; 
> [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [bidi] BIDI in mail addresses
> 
> 
> Jony Rosenne writes:
>  > There are today. The text "Address" should be localized 
> too. Hebrew and  > Arabic Windows have the whole screen 
> layout RTL. What is missing can be  > fixed.
> 
> And in an RTL embedding, the URL
> 
> 	http://www.foo.com/123/ (logical order)
> 
> will display as
> 
> 	/123/http://www.foo.com (display order)
> 
> unless there is some more complex display model than the one 
> that I've seen proposed.  Given that Hebrew/Arabic users are 
> going to want to be able to access ASCII URLs for the 
> foreseeable future, if not indefinitely, this looks like it 
> would be horribly confusing...
> 
> 	-roy
> 
> 
>