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RFC 5893
Title: Right-to-Left Scripts for Internationalized
Domain Names for Applications (IDNA)
Author: H. Alvestrand, Ed.,
C. Karp
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: August 2010
Mailbox: harald at alvestrand.no,
ck at nic.museum
Pages: 17
Characters: 38870
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-idnabis-bidi-07.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5893.txt
The use of right-to-left scripts in Internationalized Domain Names
(IDNs) has presented several challenges. This memo provides a new
Bidi rule for Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA)
labels, based on the encountered problems with some scripts and some
shortcomings in the 2003 IDNA Bidi criterion. [STANDARDS TRACK]
This document is a product of the Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (Revised) Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
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