[discuss] IDNA and Arabic (and other RTL scripts)

Tue Mar 18 19:57:35 UTC 2014

Let me phrase this differently: The bidirectional rules in IDNA2008 are
_very_ well thought through and works. In writing systems of both
directionalities. But that is also why some of the rules are so
conservative.

   Patrik

On 2014-03-18 17:43, Dominique Lacroix wrote:
> Thanks Andrew and Patrik.
> The complexity you describe reminds me the story of the Procrustean Bed ;-)
> And mixing directionalities reminds the boustrophedon script that was
> the sign of transitional writing systems.
> It's not a criticism, but only an observation. A system conceived and
> largely yet implemented in left-to-right is difficult to transform into
> right-to-left.
> 
> @+, cheers, Dominique
> 
> 
> Le 18/03/14 16:49, Patrik Fältström a écrit :
>>
>> On 2014-03-18 14:53, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>>> For most users, I think the most natural way to
>>> write a name in analogy with the current use is something like this:
>>>
>>>     [TLD].[2LD].[3LD].[4LD]
>> The order of the tokens I claim depends on within what directionality
>> the over all writing context is. If that is right to left, the TLD will
>> be the leftmost token. If it is left to right the TLD will be to the
>> left. Then you on top of that will have a directionality of the
>> characters within each one of the tokens that creates the domain name.
>>
>>    Patrik
>>
>>
>>
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