input time order of IDN/IMA

[Soobok Lee]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 06:35:58AM +0100, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> 
> 
> --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.

Yes. it's impossible. It's clear. Just finding recommendations to *reduce*
end users' frustrations.