Re: Unicode's PRI #185 & EAI: should the UBA be revised to handle bidi email addresses better too?

Hello Mark,

Many thanks for your quick answer.

On 2011/08/01 10:52, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
> I'm glad you're submitting this; a thoughtful analysis, as I'd expect from
> you.
>
> The UTC will be discussing this during this week, but I thought I'd say a
> few things now.
>
> On the bidi algorithm issues:
>
>     - first, the committee approaches the UBA very carefully -- it has proven
>     to be quite sensitive, and any changes have to be done carefully. I expect
>     any actions at this meeting to still be in a proposal state. The earliest
>     possible point for any release is U6.1, which is in February. There are 2
>     F2F meetings before then.

Good to hear. I really think this needs time.

>     - we've seen a number of major companies extending or wanting to extend
>     the BIDI algorithm for display.
> http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#HL3permits this, but what we really
> don't want to happen is for the extensions
>     to be incompatible. That's really what is driving this; and probably any
>     change would be in the form of a defined extension, which would have a more
>     or less strong recommendation (depending on what the committee decides). It
>     may be cast as 'experimental' -- we'll just have to see.