[UA-discuss] Mixing between RTL and LTR scripts

[Andrew Sullivan]

Also I don't know how you disallow script mixing for domain names. IDNA is 
label by label. The DNS is distributed, so there's no way to prevent 
mixing, is there?

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On May 4, 2018 05:36:02 "John Levine" <john.levine at standcore.com> wrote:

>>                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