RE: IDN - RTL

So this type of string should be avoided - but the restriction should be
minimal, and strings that do not cause a problem should be allowed.
 
Jony

-----Original Message-----
From: www-international-request@w3.org
[mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Matitiahu Allouche
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:10 PM
To: Jony Rosenne
Cc: www-international@w3.org; www-international-request@w3.org
Subject: 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
2554160




"Jony Rosenne" <rosennej@qsm.co.il> 
Sent by: www-international-request@w3.org 


18/02/2005 14:05 


To
<www-international@w3.org> 

cc

Subject
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.
>