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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am just wondering whenever it is permitted or not to have this case:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><r2l chars><num1>.<num2>.<etc ..><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As you know in case r2l labels the display will be like this<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><etc..>.<num1>.<num2><r2l chars><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As you see both of them have different display order which isn’t the same as network order.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And I know it is mentioned in the RFC <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<pre><span dir="RTL"></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="color:black"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span style="color:black">Several stronger statements were considered and rejected, because<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL"><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">they seem to be <b>impossible to fulfill within the constraints of the<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></pre>
<pre><b><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">Unicode bidirectional algorithm</span></b><span dir="RTL"></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="color:black"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And one of the statement is
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span dir="RTL"></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o<span dir="RTL"></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span>
</span>The sequence of labels should be consistent with network order<span dir="RTL"></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">This proved impossible -- a domain name consisting of the labels</span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">in network order) L1.R2.R3.L4 will be displayed as L1.R3.R2.L4 in</span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">an LTR context<span dir="RTL"></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span>. (</span>In an RTL context, it will be displayed as</span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">L4.R3.R2.L1<span dir="RTL"></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span>)</span></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed">
<span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<pre dir="RTL" style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And I have tried two implemented tools (well I don’t know if they follow the RFC fully or not).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/idna.jsp?a=%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AF888.999.%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9#notes"><span lang="EN-US">http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/idna.jsp?a=%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AF888.999.%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9#notes</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://mct.verisign-grs.com/conversiontool/convertServlet?input=%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AF888.999.%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9&type=UTF8"><span lang="EN-US">http://mct.verisign-grs.com/conversiontool/convertServlet?input=%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AF888.999.%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span>&</span><span lang="EN-US">type=UTF8</span></a><span dir="RTL"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Abdulrahman,<o:p></o:p></p>
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