Mixing scripts (Re: Unicode versions (Re: Criteria forexceptional characters))

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Sun Dec 24 15:00:56 CET 2006


At 22:00 +0900 2006-12-24, Martin Duerst wrote:

>Obviously, disallowing the mixing of Latin and Cyrillic in general,
>at least at this point in time, would punish those languages that
>use an occasional Q or W or whatever from Latin amidst Cyrillic.

It is Kurdish, and the two letters are for other functional reasons 
being proposed for addition to the standard. So for the sake of 
argument, assume that this particular reason does not apply.

Why then would mixing Latin and Greek and Cyrillic at (at least) the 
same level not be disallowed in IDNs and IRIs to avoid security 
problems?
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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