Table-building
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
harald at alvestrand.no
Fri Feb 2 17:54:13 CET 2007
Ken,
do I understand your text below as saying
"given sufficient thrust, characters can migrate from IDN_never to
IDN_Permitted"?
Harald
--On 1. februar 2007 17:28 -0800 Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase.com> wrote:
> This should be formulated as:
>
> The UTC promises never to include the unreasonable
> symbolic and punctuation crap that nobody wants
> in IDNs in the IDN_Permitted property. If a newly
> encoded character gets the gc=Po property, by
> general rule it won't be included in IDN_Permitted.
> If, however, it turns out that a newly encoded
> character actually is a letter of some sort, and
> was mistakenly given the gc=Po property, and *if*
> it is important enough for IDN's that some community
> wants it added, then the UTC will correct its
> General_Category to gc=Lo (or whatever) and include
> it in IDN_Permitted in a future revision of the
> standard, just as it would have if the property
> were correctly identified from the start. Furthermore,
> the UTC will *never* remove a character from
> IDN_Permitted, no matter *what* other property
> corrections might turn out to be warranted for it.
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