[UA-EAI] comments on uasg019b

John Levine john.levine at standcore.com
Fri Aug 3 13:53:05 UTC 2018


I changed it to can be confusing.

On Fri, 3 Aug 2018, Paul Borokhov wrote:

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>> 2 авг. 2018 г., в 5:41 ПП, John Levine <john.levine at standcore.com> написал(а):
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>>> slide 21. remove the comment that bidi text is often confusing to users.
>>> Seems pejorative.
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>> It sure can when people deliberately mix scripts in addresses to confuse recipients.
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> But that’s not what the slide says. Here’s the bullet:
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> 	• * Displaying bi-directional text is complex and often confusing to users.
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> Displaying bidi text is indeed complex and might be confusing to *developers* but properly displayed bidi text is not “often” confusing to *users*. Deliberately messed up bidi text is confusing, but how often are *users* seeing deliberately messed up text?
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> Paul
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Regards,
John Levine, john.levine at standcore.com
Standcore LLC


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