UTC Agenda Item: IDNA proposal

Patrik Fältström patrik at frobbit.se
Fri Nov 24 04:50:51 CET 2006


On 24 nov 2006, at 03.53, Michael Everson wrote:

> At 02:37 +0530 2006-11-24, Patrik Fältström wrote:
>> New version can be found as http://stupid.domain.name/idnabis/ 
>> table-latest.html
>>
>> - Accept all LDH in US-ASCII
>>
>> - Do not accept IPA extensions for latin
>
> Um. Patrik? Some of those are used in African orthographies. We  
> CANNOT ban things based simply on what UCS Table the appear in. Is  
> that what you have done?

I got a (private) request to remove all IPA codepoints, where IPA is  
based on the BLOCK (not SCRIPT), that is correct.

> (I have not been able to follow all of the discussions.)
>
>> - Do not accept script Inherited
>
> Why? What does this mean and what are the implications?

Because of the content of that script. For example

U+0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT

See script "inherited" in the table.

    Patrik



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