U+07FA, NKO LAJANYALAN (was Re: consensus on TATWEEL)

[Vint Cerf]

I had reached a similar conclusion and I thought I said so on the list  
but if not,
it seemed that 95% of the messages were in favor of disallowing this  
character.

v

On Jul 14, 2009, at 8:19 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:

> I concur that the consensus on U+0640 ARABIC TATWEEL was (and probably
> still is) DISALLOWED.
>
> Action Item: PAF.
>
> Eric
>
> Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>> Michael said:
>>
>>
>>> There is one in Mongolian too.
>>>
>>
>> Michael is referring to U+180A MONGOLIAN NIRUGU, which
>> is another of these stem extenders in a cursive script.
>>
>> However, unlike TATWEEL and NKO LAJANYALAN, U+180A
>> is gc=Po (Punctuation, Other), in part because it also
>> has another hyphen-like function in Mongolian. Because
>> it is classed as punctuation, U+180A is already defined
>> as DISALLOWED for IDNA in idnabis-tables-05.txt. So
>> there is nothing further in question about U+180A.
>>
>> The issue is about explicitly disallowing U+0640 ARABIC TATWEEL
>> and U+07FA NKO LAJANYALAN, which are gc=Lm, and which
>> are still classed as PVALID in idnabis-tables-05.txt.
>> (But which, when we discussed this last, we had consensus
>> should be DISALLOWED, instead.)
>>
>> --Ken
>>
>>
>>> On 14 Jul 2009, at 22:58, Mark Davis ⌛ wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> This may have slipped through the cracks...
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 01:35, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
>>>> Not yet. I will post a call for consensus on that shortly. V
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Kent Karlsson
>>>> To: Vint Cerf; idna-update at alvestrand.no
>>>> Sent: Mon Apr 13 01:26:02 2009
>>>> Subject: Re: consensus on TATWEEL
>>>> I assume this also goes for U+07FA, NKO LAJANYALAN, which IIUC has
>>>> the same nature as TATWEEL.
>>>>
>>>>    /kent k
>>>>
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