UTC Agenda Item: IDNA proposal
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Fri Nov 24 10:33:57 CET 2006
At 09:20 +0530 2006-11-24, Patrik Fältström wrote:
>I got a (private) request to remove all IPA
>codepoints, where IPA is based on the BLOCK (not
>SCRIPT), that is correct.
That is by no means appropriate. You immediately
render IDN unavailable to Azerbaijan, for
instance.
>>(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.
Um. You're banning all independently combining
characters? Then you immediately render IDN
unavailable to millions of Africans.
Is this really what you are doing?
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