Tables and contextual rule for IDEOGRAPHIC ITERATION MARKs

[Mark Davis ⌛]

Agreed.

Mark


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 17:07, Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase.com> wrote:

> I concur with Wil Tan on this opinion, too.
>
> the simplest way to deal with U+3005 IDEOGRAPHIC ITERATION MARK
> is to let it be PVALID and to remove the need for a CONTEXTO
> rule definition for it.
>
> Nothing significant is gained for IDNs in trying to define
> a well-formedness rule for the use of this one character, out of
> many other possible choices that could be made to try to
> address well-formedness of East Asian character strings.
> All it does is add a quirky one-off context rule that makes
> the spec more complex.
>
> --Ken
>
> >
> > 2009/7/15 Patrik Fältström <patrik at frobbit.se>:
> > >
> > > On 9 apr 2009, at 01.23, Yoshiro YONEYA wrote:
> > >
> > >> Despite of its name, IDEOGRAPHIC ITERATION MARK (U+3005) sometimes
> used
> > >> next to Hiragana or Katakana.  Therefore, contextual rule for
> IDEOGRAPHIC
> > >> ITERATION MARK should be as follows:
> > >>
> > >> Appendix A.10.  IDEOGRAPHIC ITERATION MARK;
> > >> (... snipped algorithm ...)
> > > This is changed for -06 of the tables document.
> > >
> >
> > Patrik, you might have missed some messages between John, Martin and
> > Mark on this same thread which suggested that we should leave U+3005
> > as PVALID (which I concur):
> >   http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/idna-update/2009-April/004398.html
>
>
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