I agree with Erik. At first I too thought that mapping it away would be the right thing, but prohibition would avoid the ambiguous target problem.<br><br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:52, Erik van der Poel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erikv@google.com">erikv@google.com</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;">
I'd like to elaborate a little bit on my position on Tatweel, given<br>
the email below, and the discussions about mapping yesterday.<br>
<br>
Although mapping Tatweel to "nothing" (i.e. deleting) is certainly one<br>
of the alternatives, I think we should consider simply disallowing<br>
Tatweel. The reason is as follows.<br>
<br>
If we map Tatweel to nothing, IDNA2003 apps and new apps will try to<br>
resolve different domain names. E.g. old and new browsers will go to<br>
different places.<br>
<br>
If we disallow Tatweel in the input to the mapping function (or map<br>
Tatweel to Tatweel and then prohibit Tatweel in the input to the<br>
Punycode function), new apps will simply fail to lookup the domain<br>
name. This would eventually encourage e.g. HTML file maintainers to<br>
remove Tatweels from domain names in hrefs and the like.<br>
<br>
Erik<br>
<br>
2009/3/25 Waleed Oransa <<a href="mailto:woransa@gmail.com">woransa@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> I vote with Yes for disallow Tatweel<br>
> and if possible a recommendation that browsers removed the Tatweel from the<br>
> domain name and then send it without it.<br>
> So if Tatweel is used as in the following: الجــــزيرة .. it should be<br>
> changed to الجزيرة automatically by the browser.<br>
> The reason for disallowing Tatweel (beside what already mentioned by others)<br>
> that Tatweel has no phonetic, so if we have a word that doesn't<br>
> contain Tatweel and another one contains Tatweel, both words will have the<br>
> same pronunciation.<br>
> Waleed Oransa<br>
> IBM Egypt<br>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Harald Alvestrand <<a href="mailto:harald@alvestrand.no">harald@alvestrand.no</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> YES (ie make it DISALLOWED)<br>
>><br>
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