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

[Michael Everson]

At 02:31 -0800 2006-12-22, Michel Suignard wrote:
>Probably another piece of info in the debate:
>http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/31/684337.aspx
>It shows what IE7 does on the UI side. This rule relaxing on script
>mixing was to allow ASCII to be mixed with scripts where confusability
>risk is low.

I have said: Ban script mixing should be the default, because it is 
safest, apart from a list of exceptions where script mixing is safe 
and necessary, such as in Japan and Korea.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com