input time order of IDN/IMA

Soobok Lee lsb at lsb.org
Fri Dec 29 15:31:14 CET 2006


On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:14:37PM +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
> 
> For consistent user experiences and expectations,
> the rule of "(entry form order) == (display order) " should be strictly observed.
> My above suggestion to eliminate one confusion may create another confusion.
> 
> Instead, my half-baked revised suggestion may be:
>   email applications SHOULD display the hostname part of an email address 
>     in different styles (font,color) or form(punycode) than that for the localpart, 
>     if strong right-to-left characters are used in either of localpart
>     and hostname part of the email address.
> 
> In this example "LTRdnoceS.LTRtsriF at LTRlacoL.com",
>  "LTRdnoceS.LTRtsriF" and ".com" may be displayed in bold face 
>  while "LTRlacoL" is in normal face.

I forgot to include "@"  in  "LTRdnoceS.LTRtsriF" and
   "."  in  "com". 

Including "@" would make it clear what bold faced parts belong to.

Rewriting In HTML tagged notation,
   <b>LTRdnoceS.LTRtsriF@</b>LTRlacoL<b>.com</b>

(My above suggestion is in the scope of IMA WG, not in IDNAbis).

Soobok


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