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Re: Localization issues: (WAS alpha v0.2)
- To: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Subject: Re: Localization issues: (WAS alpha v0.2)
- From: "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:18:41 +0900
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:18:11 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 10:40 00/01/25 -0800, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> At 04:11 PM 1/25/00 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> >Since most encoding systems (including the Unicode default) use "logical
> >order" as the default direction (that is, left-to-right encoded left
> >character first, right-to-left encoded right character first), my gut
> >feeling is exactly the opposite: Encode in logical order always.
>
> Yes, but we also have to look at how internal formatting is applied if it
> is allowed. Unicode does allow you to say "reverse the following characters
> on display". There are pages and pages of mind-numbing explanation in the
> Unicode standard on this. We may want to disallow direction-changing within
> a domain part.
Yes. There are codes to say 'reverse the following characters on
display'. But you can't put them on billboards. Therefore I agree
that it's a good idea to restrict some of the possibilities given
in Unicode, along the direction Paul is suggesting.
Regards, Martin.
#-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium
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