RE: IDN - RTL

An example of major problem could be the logical string "www.ALEF5.123.il" 
which would be displayed "www.5.123FELA.il", which is quite confusing, and 
subject to several interpretations.

Shalom (Regards),  Mati
           Bidi Architect
           Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
           IBM Israel
           Phone: +972 2 5888802    Fax: +972 2 5870333    Mobile: +972 52 
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"Jony Rosenne" <rosennej@qsm.co.il> 
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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 www.אלף1.il 
causes a major problem.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik van der Poel [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

>
> 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.
>