RE: Special ordering for BIDI URLs

My idea was that the user agent would convert the local language scheme identifiers back and forth to the standard ones, so this is only a matter for the local user agent. The network will not see the local versions.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-iri-request@w3.org [mailto:public-iri-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of "Martin J. D?rst"
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:47 PM
> To: Mark Davis ?
> Cc: public-iri@w3.org; bidi@unicode.org; Shawn Steele; Murray Sargent;
> aharon@google.com; John C Klensin
> Subject: Re: Special ordering for BIDI URLs
> 
> On 2010/05/25 9:10, Mark Davis ? wrote:
> 
> > [The one real remaining piece is the scheme; the IRI is still
> understandable
> > (though ugly) if it has to be ASCII, but it would be somewhat better
> if it
> > could have a RTL alias.  (Pure digit fields like IP addresses are a
> bit
> > ugly, but seldom used.)]
> 
> [I'm not sure what the IP address has to do in a discussion on schemes,
> I'll comment on the scheme only here.]
> 
> In a short hallway discussion at the Hiroshima IETF, John Klensin and
> me
> discussed the possibility of allowing non-ASCII scheme names, but
> strictly limiting these to RTL scripts in practical use. If such a
> limitation were politically acceptable, it would provide a means to
> make
> RTL IRIs more consistent while avoiding an explosion of scheme
> identifiers.
> 
> However, we were both skeptical about the political feasibility; once
> there are Arabic and Hebrew (and Syriac and Thaana and Dhivehi)
> identifiers, it's easy to imagine that others will want Greek and
> Cyrillic and Chinese and Korean and so on and so on and cry foul if
> they
> don't get it. That would explode the space of scheme identifiers.
> 
> It should be clear that allowing scheme identifiers per language would
> be going totally over board. It would be one transcription for Arabic
> (script), not one for Arabic (language), one for Urdu, one for Persian,
> and so on. This is how it has worked with Latin schemes up to now, http
> works for English, French, Spanish, German, Italian,... and many more
> languages.
> 
> Regards,   Martin.
> 
> --
> #-# Martin J. D?rst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
> #-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp   mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp

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