Mixing scripts

[Mark Davis]

You may find useful:

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Confusable_Detection, and
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/

Mark

On 12/22/06, Soobok Lee <lsb at lsb.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:18:40PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
> >
> > Although I feel that it is silly (I have been accused of having
> > no sense of humor and a worse sense of brand-creation), we have
> > also seen instances of mixing "e-commerce" with local languages
> > in several places in the world, yielding business names of
> > e-<local-script-characters> or e<local-script-characters>.
>
> I will add another example than John's one.
>
> www.(phi)(beta)(kappa)-club.gr has  mixed script label but
> doesn't cause confusions, and so I think sweeping ban on
> latin-greek mixture of label is not desirable  in any
> one of IDNA,UA and registry policies.
>
> But, it is so obvious that  www.l(omicron)ckheedmartin.com
> should be disallowed somewhere, anyhow.
>
> What difference between
> (phi)(beta)(kappa)-club and l(omicron)ckheedmartin
> make above intuitions or decisions ?  Just my personal feeling ?
>
> I can't figure out how to turn this intuition into
> algorithms  or heuristics that can be coded into programs.
>
> Soobok
>
> >  We
> > could try to prohibit this at the protocol level, but doing so
> > would require, IMO, really compelling reasons.  Everyone should
> > remember that an overly restricted standard that isn't
> > well-justified will typically just be ignored, leading to
> > non-interoperable implementations, name space fragmentation, and
> > other bad things.
> >
> >     john
> >
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