Mixing of AN and EN (Re: Protocol-08 (and status of Defs-04 and Rationale-06))

[Harald Alvestrand]

Alireza Saleh wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
>
> The latest news we received in this case is that Mark is going to look
> at it and will write a proposal and send it for public view. There is no
> exact time for that yet.
> Correction of this bug may not affect the -bidi rules directly, but it
> is related to the display of  L AN characters in a paragraph. However 
> this
> effort may continue by UTC and application-providers to improve the
> display of AN and AL characters. When I look at the recent 
> improvements of
> displaying AN,AL,R characters, I believe there will be no visual 
> confusion
> when you have AN,AL,R characters in a LTR contexts such as domains. 
What is your reason to believe that domains are an LTR context?

The idea that domain names may occur in free text has been a basic 
assumption behind the bidi work. If they didn't, the document would be a 
lot shorter.

                           Harald