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

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

I've got a lot on my plate too, last week and this, as some clever 
persons at ICANN decided to surprise everyone with a proposal to put 
"famous marks" in the IANA root, and remove the requirement for 
registrars (good or bad) for this endless supply of golden 
wonderfulness. So I'm in damage control mode (probably a waste of time 
as the ICANN problem gets worse, not better) for another couple of days. 
Then I'll be able to follow up with the tools supplied by Erik and 
Harald and look into rules 4 and 5 in -bidi- and the possibility that 
these may be more narrowly restated.

I just read Mark's comment regarding the bidi issues current for the 
Unicode bidi subcommittee.

Eric

Erik van der Poel wrote:
> 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
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