Well, many people don't, but many people do know the difference between a curly apostrophe and the typewriter (ASCII) one. And the curly one doesn't cause a problem in scripting, so there isn't a good reason to remove it from IDNA.<br>
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Related to my previous message about U+2019 and U+0027. People do not know/see the difference.<br><font color="#888888">
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On 23 mar 2009, at 10.03, Mark Davis wrote:<br>
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Why would a script care about U+2019, any more than any other non-ASCII<br>
character?<br>
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Mark<br>
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2009/3/23 Patrik Fältström <<a href="mailto:patrik@frobbit.se" target="_blank">patrik@frobbit.se</a>><br>
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I can think of many cases where the apostrophe and other characters are<br>
part of domain names given back when looking up PTR records in DNS, the<br>
hostname gets added to a logfile (as a U-label) and then later parsed by a<br>
script.<br>
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Patrik<br>
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I am not aware of any, Mark, but perhaps others are?<br>
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On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Mark Davis wrote:<br>
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Have there been any problems with apostrophe (U+2019) since IDNA2003 was<br>
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deployed, or can you spell out a scenario where an apostrophe would cause a<br>
problem?<br>
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Mark<br>
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2009/3/20 Patrik Fältström <<a href="mailto:patrik@frobbit.se" target="_blank">patrik@frobbit.se</a>><br>
On 19 mar 2009, at 21.31, Mark Davis wrote:<br>
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There has been no uproar about<br>
the fact that IDNA2008 disables many, many names in English (especially<br>
Irish), French, Italian, and others. For example, all of the following<br>
are<br>
currently allowed in IDNA, but would be disallowed under IDNA2008.<br>
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FWIW, allowing anything that looks like (yes, I use that non-specific<br>
phrase very intentional) a character that is dangerous in scripting is and<br>
was when IDNA2003 was created a very very very bad idea. I do not think many<br>
people see the difference between ’ and ', and allowing such characters and<br>
%, !, $, * etc is something I would say is a bad idea. Very bad idea. Not<br>
everyone can have "their name" as a domain name. Because domain names are<br>
domain names, and not words and names.<br>
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That said, I see your point regarding already registered domain names.<br>
Same thing for domain names that include arrows, snowman etc.<br>
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Patrik<br>
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