Unicode versions (Re: Criteria for exceptional characters)

Erik van der Poel erikv at google.com
Mon Dec 18 18:45:08 CET 2006


Perhaps it is not necessary to remove the entire script. It may be
sufficient to warn about U+1431, which may look like a slash followed
by a backslash in some fonts and/or at small sizes. It may also be a
good idea to warn that some of the characters in that script might be
used to confuse novice users, who may not be very familiar with the
precise set of characters used to delimit portions of a URL. Some of
this computer stuff is rather confusing to beginners.

Erik

On 12/18/06, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:
> At 09:22 -0800 2006-12-18, Erik van der Poel wrote:
> >The script Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics contains quite a few
> >symbol-like characters, in some sense similar to the math symbols that
> >we now propose to remove from IDNA. Should this script be
> >re-considered?
>
> On what grounds?
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