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2009-08-10 ප.ව. 4:52 දින, Vint Cerf ලිව්වා:
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Folks,
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<div> the following documents are now officially on last call ending
August 24, 2009. Editorial comments and new issues (only) will be
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...<br>
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<div><span>The Unicode code points and IDNA:
draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-06.txt</span></div>
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The Sri Lanka IDN Task Force considered the document <span>draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-06.txt
and has an issue with the inclusion on the Tamil Digits as valid IDNA
characters.<br>
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<pre>0BE6..0BEF ; PVALID # TAMIL DIGIT ZERO..TAMIL DIGIT NINE
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These characters are not in general use, and several of them are
identical or similar to other Tamil characters (see attached image).<br>
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SL-IDN-TF member G. Balachandan said:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Tamil has a distinct set of digits. These digit
representations were
commonly used in the early twentieth century but these are not used now
(or very less usage). Presently the European digits have replaced the
Tamil numerals in usage. Most of the Tamil numerals cannot be
distinguished from some of the Tamil vowels, consonants, syllables and
other symbols. <br>
(Please see the attached image)<br>
Tamil numerals should not be
allowed in IDNA2008<br>
Thanks<br>
Bala </blockquote>
<span>Note that the usage of Tamil digits is quite different to, for
example, Devanagari or Bengali digits, which *are* in current use. Most
Tamil speakers today are not even aware of the Tamil digits, and would
not know how to input them on a keyboard. [I believe that a similar
situation exists for other South Indian scripts, as well as Thai, etc.
but will confine this request to Tamil].<br>
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I am aware that Tamil digits have the Unicode property "Nd", in common
with other digits, and it will be difficult to segregate them on the
basis of Unicode properties.<br>
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Leaving it up to registries to not register names with these digits is
unlikely to work, as registries would normally use the RFC as their
reference.<br>
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However, we consider that the potential for confusion is sufficient
that they be disallowed in the protocol, and request that they be
excluded.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Gihan Dias<br>
Chairman, Sri Lanka IDN Task Force<br>
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