Leaving out scripts (Re: Unicode versions (Re: Criteria for exceptional characters))

Harald Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Thu Dec 21 15:58:45 CET 2006



--On 21. desember 2006 06:51 -0800 Mark Davis <mark.davis at icu-project.org> 
wrote:

> That's a good point. I would point out however, that if my browser isn't
> updated at least every few months for security problems, I have a *whole*
> lot more to worry about than whether I can see mixed scripts or not, so
> the lag is in practice not that bad. And I see baking it into the
> protocol (IDNA) as the least flexible of these in terms of delay, since
> that takes years to change.

Mobile phones come with browsers these days. And the Norwegian courts have 
just decided that mobile phones should last for 5 years.

Just a counterpoint.



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