[UA-discuss] Mixing between RTL and LTR scripts

John Levine john.levine at standcore.com
Tue May 1 14:01:50 UTC 2018


>                I hope you all doing well, after back to TF-AIDN "Task Force Of Arabic IDNs", I got the following regards to mixing LTR and RTL texts within the same label.
> -          Mixing between different scripts is not allowed for domain names and email addresses
> -          Numbers at the middle or at the end of the RTL domain name is allowed.
>
> To be away from the display issues we get if we mix RTL and LTR code points in the same labels.

Thanks.  I think this clarifies the point that we have no advice on 
displaying e-mail addresses, since mailboxes are not domain names and are 
not labels and are not subject to IDNA2008.

Regards,
John Levine, john.levine at standcore.com
Standcore LLC



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