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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">We believe that correctly handling RTL domain labels/email addresses (Bidi) is essential part UA. Otherwise, RTL users will have difficulty to understand/communicate
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>don.hollander@uasg.tech<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 20, 2018 10:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ua-discuss@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [UA-discuss] Bi-Di text treatment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ">I’ve seen a number of discussions recently about the challenges of treating text generally, and identifiers specifically, that include scripts/characters that operate both left-to-right AND right-to-left.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ">I don’t think that the UASG is a home for this because the issue extends beyond domain names and email addresses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ">But I think there must be someplace that focuses specifically on this topic and I would like to be able to provide a pointer to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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