draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-06b.txt

[Kenneth Whistler]

Patrik,

> Here is the second cut of draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-06.txt.
> 
> http://stupid.domain.name/stuff/draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-06b.txt

Much improved from the 06a draft. Thanks for the quick
turnaround on this!

I've reviewed the CONTEXTO thread, and I find myself
agreeing with John that it is a little late to be
considering removal of CONTEXTO.

And it seems to me, also from that discussion, that there
will be consensus to leave the special treatment of
HYPHEN-MINUS, the Arabic-Indic digits, and the
various dot-, apostrophe-, and quote-lookalike characters
now in the list as CONTEXTO rule sets. So I won't
continue any argumentation along those lines.

As I see the draft now, I think the following rule sets
are in good shape:

A.1. HYPHEN-MINUS
A.2. ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
A.3. ZERO WIDTH JOINER
A.4. MIDDLE DOT
A.7. HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH

For the Arabic-Indic digits, I think the rule sets
are clear, but both:

A.10. ARABIC-INDIC DIGITS
A.11. EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGITS

have an editorial note that should now be removed from
the text. These are no longer an "Example of contextual rule for
Indic digits.", etc., if these appendices, rather than
the Bidi document, are the agreed-upon location to write
the constraints on digits from both of these sets co-occurring
in a single label. So I suggest just removing the
editorial notes in these appendices now.

That leaves a few problems to resolve for:

A.5. GREEK LOWER NUMERAL SIGN (KERAIA)
A.6. COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO
A.8. HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM
A.9. KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT

Mati raised some syntactic issues for the gershayim entry
and the Greek lower numeral sign (which also would apply
to the Cyrillic titlo). And I think there is an unaswered
suggestion about the script constraints for the Katakana
middle dot.

I'll take those up in separate contributions, to see if I
can help us get to consensus on the exact wording for
those entries, too.

--Ken