- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:48:53 +0900
- To: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
At 03:15 05/02/15, Najib Tounsi wrote: > >Adam Twardoch (by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>) wrote: >> Nah. It's poor design of IDN. They should have disallowed mixing characters from different scripts in one URL. That was considered, but rejected. It may be a good policy at the registry level, but there are exceptions that need to be made for certain character combinations in certain scripts. >01234... are sometime called arabic digits and belong also to arabic script (used in western Arabic countries). www.UNIV5.ma, where UNIV5 are in arabic, would be wrong? That would be wrong, but not because '5' is in the wrong script. It's because IDNs prohibit mixing of RTL and LTR scripts in the same label (still no problem in this case), and require an RTL label to start and end with an RTL character rather than with a neutral such as a number. This restriction was necessary to make sure that the display doesn't get messed up. Regards, Martin.s
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