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Imagine living in a world where domain names can only be written in Arabic script. Would that "best effort" be good enough for you?
by lultimouomo 4y ago
Imagine living in a world where domain names can only be written in Arabic script.
Would that "best effort" be good enough for you?
- p-e-w 4y agoIf Arabic had the reach and status of the Latin script, why not? But it doesn't, so that's an irrelevant hypothetical.
- lultimouomo 4y agoAlso known as "I was born in the right part of the world, who cares?"
- burnished 4y agoIt is starting to seem like you are the one perturbed by the idea of Arabic script, which is weird since your brought it up.
- p-e-w 4y agoAlso known as "the way the world works". Which is why almost every institution everywhere uses kilometers or miles to measure distances, not parasangs or barids.
- comprev 4y agoTIL about parasangs and barids. Thanks!
- 323 4y ago> "the way the world works" Well, the way the world works created IDN and Unicode identifiers in languages. How about that?
- lultimouomo 4y ago> Also known as "the way the world works". Wait, IDNs exist, they are "the way the world works". You are arguing that they should not exist, because you don't have a use for them and they inconvenience you. How can you justify your desire for the world to work differently by saying that it's "the way the world works"?
- burnished 4y agoWhy would that be a problem?
- citrin_ru 4y agoArabic looks to me uniquely hard to read but I don't mind learning Thai, Armenian or Georgian script if it would be what almost everyone else is using. Even Hebrew and Hangul looks easier to learn.
- adolph 4y agoHow does DNS handle RtL languages? Are palindromes they key?
- zamadatix 4y agoUnicode has the concept of directionality built in already but it took some work to align with the existing assumptions of DNS https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5893 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5893
- adolph 4y agoLanguage serialization is tricky: Examples of Issues Found with RFC 3454 4.1. Dhivehi Dhivehi, the official language of the Maldives, is written with the Thaana script. This script displays some of the characteristics of the Arabic script, including its directional properties, and the indication of vowels by the diacritical marking of consonantal base characters. This marking is obligatory, and both two consecutive vowels and syllable-final consonants are indicated with unvoiced combining marks. Every Dhivehi word therefore ends with a combining mark.