Follow-up from Tuesday's discussion of digits in the Latin and Arabic Script blocks

[Tina Dam]

That might help - and just FYI that I don't think it is a good idea in any event to have strings beginning or ending with digits at TLD level anyways. However we have some companies that has their name represented that way and want that as TLDs.

I imagine they are going to push hard for it - although so far their comments are not public but made to individuals as some form for research.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:idna-update-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Harald Alvestrand
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:57 AM
> To: Eric Brunner-Williams
> Cc: idna-update at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: Follow-up from Tuesday's discussion of digits in the Latin
> and Arabic Script blocks
>
> >
> > Which brings me to true love, or the similarity of the "eastern
> > arabic-indic" character for the digit "5" and the apparently human
> glyph
> > for "heart", and also "emoji" enjoyed by CJK script users, and
> > conceivably by Cree Syllabics and other script users. I suppose an
> > emoticon is appropriate here, so ";-)".
> >
> >
> > There is, in the .ir namespace, a label which contains
> > "from-my-heart-to-your-heart", with each "eastern arabic-indic" digit
> > "5" rendered (correctly) as a heart.
> >
> >
> Since the IDNA2008 effort long ago decided to ban symbols, including
> the
> 11 "heart" symbols in Unicode (all of which are class "So"), fairness
> would dictate that we give no special consideration to use of numbers
> as
> symbols outside their linguistic context.
>
>                     Harald
>
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