Confusability (Re: New version, draft-faltstrom-idnabis-tables-02.txt,available)

[Martin Duerst]

Hello Harald,

I only started to talk about confusability because several of the
preceeding messages re. rule H were mentioning this, or things
very closely related.

I think it's wise not trying to address confusability in our work,
but if we indeed are doing so, I have no clue why anybody ever
brought up RFC 3743, which is about a method to address confusability
issues in CJKV ideograms, nothing else.

In general, I think we have to be careful to just outlaw confusability
as an issue. As an example, the effort to address issues surrounding
ZWNBSP are very much related to confusability: How can we make sure
that things that are perceived differently by script users can indeed
be represented without introducing additional confusability through
a back door.

Regards,   Martin.

At 14:18 07/06/18, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>Martin Duerst wrote:
>>
>> As already said, starting with Latin/Greek/Cyrillic in and
>> all the rest out of the STABLE (or whatever) category isn't
>> really appropriate. As an example, the current draft includes
>> all IPA characters
>> (024F..02AF ; ALWAYS    # LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH STROKE..LATIN SMALL L)
>> Some of these, in particular U+0251 and U+0261, are indistinguishable
>> from a lower case 'a' or 'g' in an italic font.
>>   
>How can we rephrase text in idnabis-issues to make it clear that we ARE NOT solving confusability?
>
>Given that we have already concluded that outlawing the Greek omicron is impossible, we need to put this issue strictly out of scope as a selection criteria.
>
>(One version did put the IPA block as "out", but that was retracted after rather fierce opposition on this very list - see Ken Whistler's message of Dec 14, 2006, for instance).
>
>                    Harald
>


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
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