* Patrik Fältström: > On 7 mar 2009, at 16.25, David Conrad wrote: > >> Define "harm". > > Here is a link to one of the blog pages of mine that show in a > filesystem what I think is "harm" if we allow mix of codepoints etc > that give same result(s) for domain names. > > http://stupid.domain.name/node/681
[Bidi rendering alters the hierarchy expressed in a path name.] > I claim that is "harm". It's an unfortunate result of the bidi rules, I agree. But even without that, it can be difficult to spot the domain part of a Unicode URL: <http://例え.テスト/メインページ> But I agree that it's more significant with bidi URLs: <http://בײַשפּיל.טעסט/הויפּט_זײַט> (Iceweasel shows the TLD at the end of the URL, but still left-justifies it.) It's possible to fix this for the browser by reconsidering how the URL is displayed (straightforward left-justification is not that great even for ASCII, after all). As a result, the ordinary, in-print rendering would differ quite significantly from the visual end result. This isn't a problem as long as it's clear to a read of the printed representation how to enter it in the browser. I'm not familiar with any right-to-left language, so I haven't got an answer to that. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
