Follow-up from Tuesday's discussion of digits in the

[Alireza Saleh]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> Shawn Steele skrev:
>   
>> I don't like the proposal because it causes extra effort and confusion and I don't see a real benefit.
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>     
>>>       
>> That makes sense, but the intent is to prohibit mixed digits, then all of them should be prohibited from being mixed, not just these 3.  Why allow mixing of the indic digits for example?  And then if we go that far, why allow mixing of scripts at all?
>>   
>>     
> The people who are representing the script communities using those 3 
> scripts have claimed that there is a problem to be solved at a protocol 
> level.
> No other script community has made such a claim.
>   

Just a quick comment. As a member of Arabic-Script community and 
according to my previous emails,  I would like to say that we want to 
resolve digit-mixing within the registry instead of the protocol.

Alireza