RE: IDN - RTL

The restriction is too restrictive and unrealistic from the point of view of
RTL users.

It is certain that not allowing these names will cause problems.

I would like to see strong evidence that a string like אלף1 or
<http://www.אלף1.il> www.אלף1.il causes a major problem.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik van der Poel [ <mailto:erik@vanderpoel.org>
mailto:erik@vanderpoel.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:13 PM
> To: Jony Rosenne
> Cc: www-international@w3.org
> Subject: Re: IDN - RTL
>
>
> Hi Jony,
>
> This restriction is specified in section 6 of the stringprep spec:
>
>  <http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3454.txt> http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3454.txt
>
> If digits *were* allowed at the end, would there be any problems? For
> example, would there be some ambiguity if we were trying to determine
> how to display the string?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erik
>
> Jony Rosenne wrote:
> > The restriction is not realistic. Digits should be allowed
> at least at the
> > end.
>
>