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

[Gervase Markham]

Erik van der Poel wrote:
> I already mentioned the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics character that
> looks like a slash followed by a backslash, and then Ken mentioned
> several other letters that look vaguely like that.

You mentioned U+1431, right?

> These may not be very convincing to _you_, but please consider that
> some of the users that are only now coming online are rather
> unfamiliar with computers and all of the cryptic strings like
> "http://". Such users might be confused by _any_ character that looks
> like it might possibly be the end of a domain name. That's why I
> brought up the issue of the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.

Sure.

I agree that browsers could do better at distinguishing the domain from 
the rest. I'm currently evaluating the Firefox extension Locationbar^2, 
which makes it bold. I rather like the effect, although it needs some UI 
tweaks.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4014/

I agree that making domain names distinct from the rest of the URL 
merely by restricting the IDN characters available is a tough job. 
However, I also don't want to turn the URL bar into a kaleidoscope of 
colours, indicators and dividers, as some (not here) have suggested.

> The idea to display the domain name separately in the lower right
> corner in Firefox is great; I assume we have you to thank for that.

Yes :-) It's a start.

Gerv