Re: [bidi] Re: Special ordering for BIDI URLs

Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
<quote>
It certainly is a misunderstanding. A kid in Egypt or Israel who has not 
yet learnt a second language should be able to use the internet in his own 
language and script, i.e. exclusively RTL.
</quote>

I have observed my own first-graders grand-children, barely able to type 
Hebrew letters and absolutely no Latin letters, accessing sites with URLs 
partly in Hebrew by typing the Hebrew parts in the browser address bar, 
getting a list of hits and choosing the first one which happens to be the 
good one.

I would rather expose kids to a more challenging environment and have them 
develop their own solutions than try to hide from them the existence of 
other alphabets.


Shalom (Regards),  Mati
           Bidi Architect
           Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
           IBM Israel
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