Disallowing code points

[Mark Davis ⌛]

Yes, 3033 can be removed for other reasons (as described in the other
thread), it isn't needed.

Mark


On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 16:40, Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase.com> wrote:

> Gervase noted (re the intersection of Mozilla Character
> Blocklist with IDNA 2008 PVALID or CONTEXTO characters):
>
> > http://macchiato.com/idna/idna-info.html
> > I get the below results. Headlines: five are PVALID
> > (\u01C3\u02D0\u0337\u0338\u3033) and one is CONTEXT0 (\u05F4).
> >
> > PVALID:
> > \u01C3 LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK (exclamation mark)
> > \u02D0 MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON (colon)
> > \u0337 COMBINING SHORT SOLIDUS OVERLAY (slash)
> > \u0338 COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY (slash)
> > \u3033 VERTICAL KANA REPEAT MARK UPPER HALF (slash)
>
> Mark responded:
>
> "My take is that all of these are legitimate characters,
> and should just be PVALID."
>
> I agree about the first four -- and note particularly that
> U+0337 and U+0338 are combining characters.
>
> I disagree about U+3033, which is the subject of a separate
> thread, and which should just be made DISALLOWED (along
> with the other vertical kana repeat marks) in the exceptions
> list. That would remove one character from the
> intersection with the Mozilla blocklist.
>
> --Ken
>
> >
> > CONTEXT0:
> > \u05F4 HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM (double quotes)
>
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