input time order of IDN/IMA

[Harald Alvestrand]

--On 8. desember 2006 12:35 +0900 Soobok Lee <lsb at lsb.org> wrote:

> Suggested recommendation (primarily for IMA draft, but also IDNAbis):
>   if bidi IMA/IDN contains at least one strong LtoR chars (like .com)
>       labels SHOULD flow left to right.
>   if bidi IMA/IDN contains no  strong LtoR chars at all,
>       labels SHOULD flow right to left.
>   dot-delimited bidi localparts SHOULD share the same display order
>       consistenly with labels of bidi IDN parts.
>

note the other requirement:

display of a domain name (or an email address) copied into running text and 
treated using normal Unicode BIDI algorithms SHOULD be exactly the same as 
the domain name displayed by software that "knows" it's a domain name.

The illusion that domain names can be treated specially for display under 
all conditions is just that - an illusion.

                   Harald