New subject: url representation in right to left scripts (arabic, hebrew, ...)

19 Nov 2007

hi,
some time ago ICANN put up test IDNs. they set up a wiki using
mediawiki : http://idn.icann.org

soon after that an issue concerning HTTP URLs for RTL scripts has been
raised (actually i think i raised it, to be honest)  :

http://idn.icann.org/Talk:IDNwiki#RTL_scripts_URL_directionality_problem_.2…

basically, for RTL scripts URLs are represented with "http://" to the
left. this looks awkward for us RTL users
because it breaks the hierarchy in the URL (it's better explained in
the example above).

after making some investigation, i found that when you use a RTL
localized navigator, URLs in the address bar are represented with
"://http" to the right. which, i think, is an acceptable solution.

i think mediawiki parser should convert RTL IDN URLs to this format.

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