RE: [iri] #121: BIDI: Some users are requiring right-to-left label ordering.

Yes, it gets complicated.  However, while in London, everything else on the bus is in LTR context, while on their computer at home everything is in RTL context.  The thinking is more like:

A) An Arabic user will (eventually) use a lot of Arabic domain names, so they'll be used to the ARABIC.WWW://http form.  
B) So then http://www.english.com will seem funny to them, if their browser's still aligning stuff to the right, etc.

I think that there's enough other contextual differences when switching languages/travelling, that realizing that a URL on a double decker bus in London needs to be handled in the right way isn't that hard.  Certainly there's a bigger immediate danger in driving on the wrong side of the road :)

For "us", we have the order the data is stored in.  For readers I don't think there's a "perfect" solution that is unambiguous in all cases, so I would prefer to err on the side of having things readable in the user's normal way of thinking.

-Shawn

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Subject: Re: [iri] #121: BIDI: Some users are requiring right-to-left label ordering.

It can't be users choice. It's either LTR or RTL by the specs. Because if the user from Bahrain on a trip to UK had to write down a URL written on a bus in London, he would retranscribe it inverted.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I disgree (obviously) about enforcing the LTR ordering though....  I 
> think that's up to the situation/user :)
>



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