[Interest] represent QHostAddress as locale dependent string

[Soroush Rabiei]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Konrad Rosenbaum <konrad at silmor.de> wrote:
>
> European/Latin derived scripts are left to right. Arabic and other Semitic
> scripts are right to left. Fortunately they use the dot in a very similar
> way to Latin based scripts. However: after you translated the digits from
> Latin looking arabic numerals to arabic looking arabic numerals - do you
> sort the 4 numbers from left to right or from right to left?

Nope. There is no recent Arabic script that suggests writing numbers
from left to right (: Arabic is bidirectional. digits are written from
left to right.

Anyway, we don't want **everything** localized. And we are used to
Hindu-Arabic numeral system with western numbers.

IPv4, IPv6, special numbers (for example in street address) MAC and
other technical stuff should not be localized. If you do so, you'll
break someones work... Personally, I can't imagine using an
application in Persian (that uses Arabic script with extensions) that
shows IP addresses like ۱۹۲.۱۶۸.۱.۴ (in Persian) or ۱۹۲.۱۶۸.۱.٤‎ (in
Arabic) that just won't work. You can't copy/paste that address in
some other application.

Cheers,
Soroush