On Yaum al-Sabt 05 Rajab 1425 10:31, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> Having gone through the examples in section-4.4, the only response > I can give is that this is VERY confusing and doesn't seem "expected". > > I had always hoped that the transformation would go along the following > lines when it comes to URLs/IRIs, > > logical: http://ab.TSOHYM.MOC/ij/kl/mn/op.html > visual : http://ab.MYHOST.COM/ij/kl/mn/op.html > > granted that in reading the URL/IRI it would seem backwards, but I'd > guess that alot more people would feel more appropriate with it this > way since the format of the URL is now so ubiquitous. In other words, > people have gotten used to using the '.' and '/' as delimiters of sorts > to where each entry/string is a self-contained block/paragraph. > > Example 3 really shows what I mean further - I would have guessed this > would be more sensible to do, > > logical: http://BUS.TSOHYM.MOC/HTAP/KNIL?GAT=EULAV;EMAN=GNIRTS > visual : http://SUB.MYHOST.COM/PATH/LINK?TAG=VALUE;NAME=STRING > > instead of > > visual : http://NAME=STRING;TAG=VALUE?LINK/PATH/COM.MYHOST.SUB > > I seem to have an issue with their explanation, for instance, in > example-5 in which they note, > > ''After "http://ab.cd."; one reads the RTL block "E-F-slash-G-H", > which corresponds to the logical representation.'' > > due to the fact that I think the slash is a big enough delimiter > that most would argue that the shear "sound" of it is not as > important as how their eye perceives the URL/IRI due to the > aforementioned customary delineation. > > I am alone in thinking this or is this simply too new for some > (ie. me) to fully comprehend and get used to just yet ? If only you will give your examples in real Arabic characters, too (in addition of using logical/visual method). I believe others would interact and respond much better. -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of the Open Arabic Bugs Project at http://wiki.arabeyes.org/OpenBugs CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
