Mixing of AN and EN (Re: Protocol-08 (and status of Defs-04 and Rationale-06))

[Erik van der Poel]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Alireza Saleh <saleh at nic.ir> wrote:
> The latest news we received in this case is that Mark is going to look
> at it and will write a proposal and send it for public view.

Mark has a lot on his plate.

> Correction of this bug may not affect the -bidi rules directly, but it
> is related to the display of  L AN characters in a paragraph.

I'm a bit concerned about this. We'd have to implement the new bidi
algorithm and then run programs like Harald's and mine to check.

> When I look at the recent improvements of
> displaying AN,AL,R characters, I believe there will be no visual confusion
> when you have AN,AL,R characters in a LTR contexts such as domains.

Recent improvements? When did they occur? Has ICU been updated for those?

> Having the
> backward incompatible issues such as what happens between IDNA2003 and
> IDNA2008 cannot be easily ignored because the real IDN domains are in the
> market.

Yes.

Erik