What rules have been used for the current list of codepoints?

Martin Duerst duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Fri Dec 15 10:25:46 CET 2006


At 07:31 06/12/15, Michael Everson wrote:
>At 23:09 +0100 2006-12-14, Patrik F$BgM(Btstr$B‹N(B wrote:

>>See list of rules I have passed around, that Mark has updated. The answer is yes, I think. I am a bit uncertain that I understand your question.
>
>Are you able to use the script property to distinguish between a character belonging to the Latin script and one belonging to the Cyrillic script?

I'd say "in general yes". There are certain languages (I don't
remember which ones anymore) that are written in Cyrillic but
that borrow characters from Latin. For this reason, "spoofing
protector" software can't just use the script property.

Regards,    Martin.



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