- From: Jonathan Rosenne <rosennej@qsm.co.il>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 18:32:29 +0300
- To: "'Mohamed Mohie'" <MOHIEM@eg.ibm.com>, "'Adil Allawi'" <adil@diwan.com>
- Cc: <aharon@google.com>, <bidi@unicode.org>, <bidi-bounce@unicode.org>, "'Mark Davis ?'" <mark@macchiato.com>, "'Matitiahu Allouche'" <matial@il.ibm.com>, "'Murray Sargent'" <murrays@exchange.microsoft.com>, "'Nasser Kettani'" <Nasser.Kettani@microsoft.com>, <public-iri@w3.org>, "'Shawn Steele'" <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>
> To clarify this situation , is there a near plan for have the full URL > completely localized? There isn't, there is a lot of opposition, there should be, eventually there will be and it will happen ... Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: bidi-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:bidi-bounce@unicode.org] On > Behalf Of Mohamed Mohie > Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 4:12 PM > To: Adil Allawi > Cc: aharon@google.com; bidi@unicode.org; bidi-bounce@unicode.org; Mark > Davis ?; Matitiahu Allouche; Murray Sargent; Nasser Kettani; public- > iri@w3.org; Shawn Steele > Subject: [bidi] Re: Special ordering for BIDI URLs > > It's stated below that "If everything is RTL then this problem is > avoided." > I assume that this include also localizing http, and the extension > "html". > A previous assumption was added as below: > " > a) Pure RTL URLs are not practical currently, because of the scheme > (http > etc...) and the extension (html, asp, php etc...). Localizing them on > the > client side would be a vast effort with hard issues of coordination, > education and likely also politics. > " > > To clarify this situation , is there a near plan for have the full URL > completely localized? > > Thanks And Best regards, > Mohamed Mohie , PMP > ________________________________________________ > GCoC BIDI , > Advisory Software Engineer, Project Manager, M.Sc. > IBM Egypt > email : mohiem@eg.ibm.com > > > > > From: Adil Allawi <adil@diwan.com> > > To: Matitiahu Allouche <matial@il.ibm.com> > > Cc: "aharon@google.com" <aharon@google.com>, > "bidi@unicode.org" <bidi@unicode.org>, > bidi-bounce@unicode.org, Mark Davis ? > <mark@macchiato.com>, Murray Sargent > <murrays@exchange.microsoft.com>, Nasser Kettani > <Nasser.Kettani@microsoft.com>, "public-iri@w3.org" > <public-iri@w3.org>, Shawn > Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com> > > Date: 31/05/2010 03:53 ? > > Subject: [bidi] Re: Special ordering for BIDI URLs > > Sent by: bidi-bounce@unicode.org > > > > > > > For the example I gave: > > http://???.????????/ which tranaslated is http://register.saudi/ where > "saudi" is the Arabic country name. > > In LTR it is ordered: > > http://IDUAS.RETSIGER/ > > In RTL it appears > > /IDUAS.RETSIGER//:http > > So in the LTR case the order of the entities are: > > <text1><delimiters1><text3><text2><delimiters2> > > Generally for an Arabic reader this will appear correct as the reader > will > jump to the rightmost Arabic word. But this is already a potentially a > confusing situation. If the country code is put to the right of the > domain > name then it will be logically correct but will look wrong to the > reader. > > If everything is RTL then this problem is avoided. > > Adil > > On 31/05/2010 08:21, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: > For those on the list who do not read Arabic, could you show us > in > pseudo-Bidi (upper case for Arabic letters) how the URL is > displayed > in LTR direction and in RTL direction? > > >
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