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

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Mon Dec 18 10:46:44 CET 2006


Erik van der Poel wrote:
> I wasn't really talking about "security warnings". I mentioned one
> idea for displaying domain names to the user. If the name contains
> unfamiliar characters, it is not shown as is. Instead, say, a shaded
> rectangle, about the same size as the original name, is shown. This is
> just one example of a possible UI.

What are users supposed to do when they see this? If they are supposed 
to be concerned, then it's a security warning. If they are not, then it 
doesn't achieve much.

> If the four languages you speak are "close" to each other and use
> mostly the same characters, perhaps such groups of languages would be
> treated as, well, groups. English, French and German are sufficiently
> "close" that showing an e-acute to an English speaker is probably OK.

How does one define "close" as a relation across all world scripts?

Gerv



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