UTC Agenda Item: IDNA proposal

[Michael Everson]

At 09:20 +0530 2006-11-24, Patrik Fältström wrote:

>I got a (private) request to remove all IPA 
>codepoints, where IPA is based on the BLOCK (not 
>SCRIPT), that is correct.

That is by no means appropriate. You immediately 
render IDN unavailable to Azerbaijan, for 
instance.

>>(I have not been able to follow all of the discussions.)
>>
>>>- Do not accept script Inherited
>>
>>Why? What does this mean and what are the implications?
>
>Because of the content of that script. For example
>
>U+0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT
>
>See script "inherited" in the table.

Um. You're banning all independently combining 
characters? Then you immediately render IDN 
unavailable to millions of Africans.

Is this really what you are doing?
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com