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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 14:30, Tina Dam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tina.dam@icann.org">tina.dam@icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi everybody, sorry for catching up late on this thread. I was a bit occupied last week at the ICANN Mexico meeting.<br>
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The IDN Guidelines correctly states that mixing of scripts is not allowed at registration time unless there is a linguistic reason for doing so (such as in the case of Japanese). </blockquote><div><br>When guidelines do you mean: The latest posted on <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/implementation-guidelines.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/implementation-guidelines.htm</a> are Version 2.2 draft 0.03 26 April 2007? It has:<br>
<ul><li>"...domain registries will associate each label in a registered internationalized domain name, as it appears in their registry, with a single script as defined by the block division of the Unicode code chart.", and</li>
<li>"All code points in a single label will be taken from the same script as determined by the Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names <<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24</a>>. Exceptions to this guideline are permissible for languages with established orthographies and conventions that require the commingled use of multiple scripts."</li>
</ul>These have some known and reported problems with this text, among them being that the first sentence defines script (incorrectly) by block, while the second leaves a very large hole for exceptions. Exceptions are necessary, the way this is written, since Common and Inherited script characters are not otherwise allowed -- which eliminates digits 0-9 as well! -- but that means that lower-level registries have to have exceptions as well. And it is not defined how one would get an exception granted: what would qualify as "linguistic reason for mixed scripts"?<br>
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