Re: [bidi] Re: BIDI?

So then we are talking about a locale property, not an (independent) user
setting. I could buy that.

Aharon

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>wrote:

>   Ø  I think that the standard should be complete without relying on user
> preferences.
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> There seem to be clear differences in expectation, particularly between
> Hebrew and Arabic speakers.  It is possible to make a standard that is
> consistent and doesn’t vary.  However that standard might “look funny” to
> some users.  Worse, it seems that the preferences are biased by things like
> how much of a mathematician they are.  Probably all people going to
> http://www.zoo.org aren’t engineers/scientists, and that needs to be
> friendly to them.
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> I think this is similar to date or time formatting.  Yes, that’s “scary”,
> because we’re talking about an IRI after all, which is Important.  However
> if I get a check for $1.000, the distinction between . and , is also going
> to be important to me.
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> So an IRI advertising a musical on the side of a bus may be a little fuzzy
> to me if I don’t understand the culture.  However I need to know the culture
> to know whether to not bother typing in the IRI because 1/9/2011 has already
> passed, or to make reservations because that’d be a fun thing to do on my
> birthday.
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> -Shawn
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