U+303B VERTICAL IDEOGRAPHIC ITERATION MARK

"Martin J. Dürst" duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Thu Jul 16 11:05:57 CEST 2009



On 2009/07/16 7:17, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

> Finally, in response to Mark's comment on this thread, I'll
> revise my assessment slightly re U+303B.
>
> for U+303B
>
>    CONTEXTO   This is the worse outcome. The only thing to be
>               said for it is that it is the current state
>               of the table. It should be changed.
>
>    PVALID     This is an acceptable outcome. U+303B is garbage in
>               IDNs, but as Mark said, no worse garbage than
>               lots of other PVALID characters.
>
>    DISALLOWED   This is my preferred outcome.
>
> And whichever the consensus is for U+303B, you should do
> the same for U+3031..U+3035, since they are "the same
> but more so" as U+303B.

I fully agree with Ken. Disallowed is best, contexto is completely 
unnecessary.

Regards,    Martin.

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