[UA-discuss] Quick Guide to Right-to-Left scripts

[Tex]

These recommendations are only suitable for a pure Arabic site and
community.

 

However a global or multilingual site would have difficulties with this.
(Note assume in the following that “example.com” is an Arabic domain.)

 

a)       Global sites often use international standard codes for example to
identify language, region, etc. So references to en, gb, ar, etc. would not
be usable under these rules. E.g. ar-SA.example.com. If transliterated, they
would not share values used in the rest of the architecture and may add some
confusion as to the ordering of the values similar to the issues with name
ordering etc.

b)      It may not be desirable to transliterate every person, product,
brand name etc. to Arabic to make it usable as an email username or
subdomain value. Suppose a celebrity is promoting a product for a Saudi co.
and they want to offer an email to reach the celebrity along with the
promotional event. He or she is known by their English name. Offering a
transliterated name would increase the likelihood of misspellings as well as
lack of recognition. Or the product recognition- I note call of duty in the
notes in English. Ergo callofduty.example.com might be more useful and even
necessary compared to using the Arabic translation of call of duty.

c)       The article doesn’t address issues with line breaking and/or the
embedding of the usernames and domains in ltr text, which may reorder and
cause ambiguity.

 

I am sure there are many other issues. This seems like a naïve approach to
the problem, although not an unreasonable first step. But it isn’t suitable
as a standard without further consideration of realworld requirements and
use cases, especially for global communities and architectures.

 

My 2 cents.

 

Tex

 

 

From: UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Don
Hollander
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:14 PM
To: ua-discuss at icann.org
Subject: [UA-discuss] Quick Guide to Right-to-Left scripts

 

Attached please find some notes and thoughts from SaudiNic on dealing with
the treatment of Arabic script in domain names and email addresses.

 

During the discussion at the UASG meeting in Barcelona we decided that we
wanted to consider a Quick Guide to Right-to-left scripts and that we could
use the work that SaudiNic and the TF-AIDN has already done on this topic.

 

The attached is based on Arabic script.    Could it be used for other
Right-To-Left scripts (i.e. Hebrew)?

 

Are the adjustments that we would want to make before adopting it as a UASG
standard?

 

Your comments before the end of November are most welcome indeed.

 

Don

 

 

 

 

Don Hollander

Secretary General – UASG

Skype: Don_Hollander

 

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