Table-building

Harald Tveit Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Fri Feb 2 17:54:13 CET 2007


Ken,

do I understand your text below as saying

"given sufficient thrust, characters can migrate from IDN_never to 
IDN_Permitted"?

                    Harald

--On 1. februar 2007 17:28 -0800 Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase.com> wrote:

> This should be formulated as:
>
>    The UTC promises never to include the unreasonable
>    symbolic and punctuation crap that nobody wants
>    in IDNs in the IDN_Permitted property. If a newly
>    encoded character gets the gc=Po property, by
>    general rule it won't be included in IDN_Permitted.
>    If, however, it turns out that a newly encoded
>    character actually is a letter of some sort, and
>    was mistakenly given the gc=Po property, and *if*
>    it is important enough for IDN's that some community
>    wants it added, then the UTC will correct its
>    General_Category to gc=Lo (or whatever) and include
>    it in IDN_Permitted in a future revision of the
>    standard, just as it would have if the property
>    were correctly identified from the start. Furthermore,
>    the UTC will *never* remove a character from
>    IDN_Permitted, no matter *what* other property
>    corrections might turn out to be warranted for it.






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