UTC Agenda Item: IDNA proposal

Patrik Fältström patrik at frobbit.se
Fri Nov 24 04:43:33 CET 2006


On 22 nov 2006, at 21.01, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

>> What about class Nd?
>
> I'd suggest that we only add a class when there's a specific label  
> that we think ought to be permitted where a specific character in  
> that class occurs, and can be mentioned by codepoint number - that  
> way, we can keep track of the reason for the inclusion (and know at  
> least one thing that gets clobbered if we reverse the decision).
>
> Which character in Nd did you want?

I was thinking of the digits in various scripts. For example:

U+0A66 GURMUKHI DIGIT ZERO
U+0CE6 KANNADA DIGIT ZERO

etc

Nd seems to be used for "... DIGIT NNNN" where NNNN is ZERO to NINE.

    Patrik



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