You may find useful:<br><br><a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Confusable_Detection">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Confusable_Detection</a>, and<br><a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/
</a><br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Soobok Lee</b> <<a href="mailto:lsb@lsb.org">lsb@lsb.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:18:40PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:<br>><br>> Although I feel that it is silly (I have been accused of having<br>> no sense of humor and a worse sense of brand-creation), we have<br>> also seen instances of mixing "e-commerce" with local languages
<br>> in several places in the world, yielding business names of<br>> e-<local-script-characters> or e<local-script-characters>.<br><br>I will add another example than John's one.<br><br>www.(phi)(beta)(kappa)-
<a href="http://club.gr">club.gr</a> has mixed script label but<br>doesn't cause confusions, and so I think sweeping ban on<br>latin-greek mixture of label is not desirable in any<br>one of IDNA,UA and registry policies.
<br><br>But, it is so obvious that www.l(omicron)ckheedmartin.com<br>should be disallowed somewhere, anyhow.<br><br>What difference between<br> (phi)(beta)(kappa)-club and l(omicron)ckheedmartin<br>make above intuitions or decisions ? Just my personal feeling ?
<br><br>I can't figure out how to turn this intuition into<br>algorithms or heuristics that can be coded into programs.<br><br>Soobok<br><br>> We<br>> could try to prohibit this at the protocol level, but doing so
<br>> would require, IMO, really compelling reasons. Everyone should<br>> remember that an overly restricted standard that isn't<br>> well-justified will typically just be ignored, leading to<br>> non-interoperable implementations, name space fragmentation, and
<br>> other bad things.<br>><br>> john<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Idna-update mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Idna-update@alvestrand.no">Idna-update@alvestrand.no
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