Katakana Middle Dot again (Was: tables-06b.txt: A.5, A.6, A.9)

Yoshiro YONEYA yone at jprs.co.jp
Fri Aug 7 12:16:48 CEST 2009


Dear Patrik,

> False;
> For All Characters:
>     If Script(cp) .in. {Hiragana, Katakana, Han} Then True;

Please include U+3005..U+3007 into the scripts set because they are also 
Japanese character family.

Regards,

-- 
Yoshiro YONEYA <yone at jprs.co.jp>

On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:49:45 +0200 Patrik Fältström <patrik at frobbit.se> wrote:

> The rule I am thinking about is the following:
> 
> False;
> For All Characters:
>     If Script(cp) .in. {Hiragana, Katakana, Han} Then True;
> 
> Note that the Script of Katakana Middle Dot is neither of "Hiragana",  
> "Katakana" or "Han".
> 
>     Patrik
> 
> On 28 jul 2009, at 00.43, Vint Cerf wrote:
> 
> > we ended up with a simple rule that says we need at least one Japanese
> > character in the label not counting the middle dot to permit use of
> > this middle dot character.
> >
> > vint
> >
> >
> > On Jul 27, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> >
> >> On 25/07/09 15:11, Michel SUIGNARD wrote:
> >>> At this point, I would prefer (somehow reluctantly) to have the Kana
> >>> middle dot PVALID, instead of a complex contextual rule that some
> >>> implementers are definitively going to get wrong.
> >>
> >> And I would prefer it to be DISALLOWED rather than PVALID, if we are
> >> going to eliminate the rules.
> >>
> >> It's not just about appearance.
> >>
> >> "Yes Dad, as long as you are on double-you double-you double-you dot
> >> paypal dot com, you are in the right place."
> >>
> >> "Hmm. I've got three double-yous, a dot, and then paypal then another
> >> dot, and then com. That seems to be what he was saying. I must be  
> >> OK."
> >>
> >> Dot and slash-like characters are uniquely problematic, and dot even
> >> more than slash, because top-level domains have dots but no slashes.
> >>
> >> Gerv
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