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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif'>Any updates to the UASG 007 document (and other relevant UASG documents) needed based on this discussion?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif'>Edmon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Zied BOUZIRI<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 9, 2018 5:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com><br><b>Cc:</b> ua-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [UA-discuss] Mixing between RTL and LTR scripts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I think Yes , we share this expectation.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>And this is what we work in the TF-AIDN : <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/making-progress-with-the-arabic-script-in-domain-names">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/making-progress-with-the-arabic-script-in-domain-names</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>TF-AIDN has 35 members hailing from 18 countries across the globe, from the <span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>the (very big) Arabic-speaking world as you say !</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The members come from a variety of backgrounds and cover a wide range of Asian and African languages using the Arabic script.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2018-05-09 10:12 GMT+01:00 Vittorio Bertola <<a href="mailto:vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com" target="_blank">vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Il 9 maggio 2018 alle 10.55 Raed AlFayez <<a href="mailto:rfayez@citc.gov.sa" target="_blank">rfayez@citc.gov.sa</a>> ha scritto: <o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=m-3836807763813609186ox-44290c2070-msonormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Dear Andre & All, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=m-3836807763813609186ox-44290c2070-msonormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=m-3836807763813609186ox-44290c2070-msonormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Please allow me to resend my comments on the blog article that was shared by Andre in his last email: </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for this, it is very interesting and very useful to non-Arabic speakers. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I understand your point: the natural expectation of an Arabic speaker is that the email address will always be displayed LTR if it is in Latin characters, while it will always be displayed RTL if it is in Arabic characters, no matter whether the surrounding text is LTR or RTL. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But what would/should happen if the email address had a mix of Latin and Arabic characters? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Also, is in your opinion this expectation shared by all the peoples in the (very big) Arabic-speaking world, and even by those that speak other languages written with Arabic characters? I am wondering whether these rules depend on the country, on the script or on the language. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p><span style='color:#888888'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><pre><span style='color:#888888'>Vittorio Bertola | Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange<br><a href="mailto:vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com" target="_blank">vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com</a> <br>Office @ <a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=Via+Treviso+12,+10144+Torino,+Italy&entry=gmail&source=g">Via Treviso 12, 10144 Torino, Italy</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:blue'>cordially</span></b>, <b><span style='color:#990000'>مع تحياتي</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:blue'>Zied BOUZIRI</span></b>، <b><span style='color:#990000'>زياد بوزيري</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ISET Charguia, Tunisie<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.bouziri.tn" target="_blank">www.bouziri.tn</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>