RE: IRIs and bidi: Addition regarding higher-level protocols

Martin,

It doesn't make sense to change to LTR in this case. 

Please consider an RTL user in an RTL environment, who knows nothing about
LTR languages and scripts.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-iri-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-iri-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Martin Duerst
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:02 PM
> To: Jony Rosenne; public-iri@w3.org
> Cc: bidi@unicode.org
> Subject: RE: IRIs and bidi: Addition regarding higher-level protocols
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Jony,
> 
> It turns out that for pure RTL IRIs, both an overall 
> left-to-right direction and an overall right-to-left 
> direction results in the same display order, right-to-left. 
> You can (almost) see this in the examples at 
> http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/BidiExamples,
> the one that comes closest is example 3.
> 
> This actually was one reason for going with *overall* 
> left-to-right direction, as opposed to component-wise 
> left-to-right direction.
> 
> Regards,    Martin.
> 
> At 06:50 04/02/12 +0200, Jony Rosenne wrote:
> 
> >I see why it would be desirable to demand an overall left-to-right 
> >direction for mixed (LTR and RTL) IRIs, but not for pure RTL 
> IRIs in an 
> >RTL environment.
> >
> >This requirement should be changed.
> >
> >Jony
> >

Received on Thursday, 12 February 2004 14:49:14 UTC