Mixing scripts (Re: Unicode versions (Re: Criteria for exceptional characters))

Harald Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Fri Dec 22 11:16:56 CET 2006



--On 22. desember 2006 10:28 +0100 "Marcos Sanz/Denic" <sanz at denic.de> 
wrote:

>
> So far I have seen no single *technical* reason to forbid mixing scripts
> in the protocol.

If you accept that mixed-script spoofing is a technical issue, you've heard 
a technical reason.

> So please leave layer 7+ issues out of it.

Careful - names are a layer 7 (application) issue by definition.

There are layer 8+ issues too, which we can't ignore, but layer 7 is 
definitely inside our purview :-)



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