RE: Requirement for internal direction changes (was Re: [bidi] Re: Special ordering for BIDI URLs)

Well numbers (arabic/english) have same common things and mostly direction but IRI adapted English as it base with this isn’t “universal”

 

 

From: public-iri-request@w3.org [mailto:public-iri-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Slim Amamou
Sent: 26/May/2010 10:38 AM
To: Ted Hardie
Cc: public-iri@w3.org
Subject: Re: Requirement for internal direction changes (was Re: [bidi] Re: Special ordering for BIDI URLs)

 

 

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:

(...) One discussion point that I seem to recall touched on a context in which the
local language was right-to-left but numbers appearing within the text
using Hindu-Arabic numerals (0-9) were left-to-right.


This is always the case in all RTL languages, digits order in numbers notation is universally LTR (leftmost digit yields the biggest power of ten)

IRIs should be as universal as numbers.



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