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Re: [precis] PRECIS bidi rule for usernames

Sam Whited <sam@samwhited.com> Mon, 10 October 2016 04:27 UTC

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Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 23:26:41 -0500
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Subject: Re: [precis] PRECIS bidi rule for usernames
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On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
> There are plenty of RTL punctuation characters (e.g., U+05BE), and those are
> allowed in RTL strings (even as the last character). RFC 5893 says that an
> RTL string must not have an LTR character at the end, with the result that
> an RTL string cannot end in "."; this helps to prevent confusion in the
> typical presentation of domain names (which is the target use case for RFC
> 5893).

That makes sense; thanks for the clarification.

—Sam



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