- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:41:45 +0100
- To: "'Martin Duerst'" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>
Hi Martin, > From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp] > Sent: 27 March 2007 08:16 ... > >wrt http://www.w3.org/International/tests/test-idn-display-1: > > > >Near the top it says: > > > >"Run each test twice. First with only en or en-US listed in > the browser language preferences, and secondly with the > following additional languages in the preferences: Russian, > Japanese, German, Greek, Hindi, Armenian, Thai and 'am' (user > defined code for Amharic)...." > > Richard - "user defined code" may be highly misleading. "am" > is not a user defined code, it is defined by ISO 639. It is > just not selectable from the menu in IE, right? I hope you > can clarify this in the text. I changed it. Thanks. > > >Also, did you see Najib's email of March 7? - He made the > point that even for some 'supported' TLDs, Firefox displays > Arabic & Hebrew domain names in punycode. > >Yet, if you mix some Latin characters with the Arabic [and > possibly Hebrew] domain names, they render fine... peculiar. > > Does such a mixture include labels that contain both Latin > and RTL characters, or are the scripts separated by dots? In > the former case, this would be even more peculiar, because > such labels (mixing RTL and LTR characters) are illegal in IDN. See the new test and results I just announced in my reply to Michael. RI
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