What rules have been used for the current list of codepoints?

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Thu Dec 14 16:15:35 CET 2006


At 16:09 +0100 2006-12-14, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

>>>I have been following along, perhaps with less understanding than many,
>>>but I continue to have concerns that we are not always distinguishing
>>>that which is needed for expressive natural language, and that which is
>>>safe, stable, and secure for Internet domain names.
>>
>>Hm. Vint, you've mentioned "expressive natural language" before, so let's
>>discuss it. For my part, I assume that the letters used, for instance, to
>>write a person's name should be included in the permitted list of
>>letters.
>
>Not if the name is O'Shea, or even "Vint Cerf". Both ASCII single 
>quote and ASCII space are out of bounds for IDNA.

Letters. I said "letters".
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