U+303B VERTICAL IDEOGRAPHIC ITERATION MARK

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Sat Jul 18 02:57:09 CEST 2009


i think I am sensing a general consensus on DISALLOWED.

v

On Jul 17, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

>
>> On 16 jul 2009, at 01.20, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>>
>>> So just fix the exception list to take care of U+303B.
>>
>> So from the list Will presented:
>>
>>> I think the following should be DISALLOWED:
>>>
>>> U+3031: Lm: VERTICAL KANA REPEAT MARK
>>> U+3032: Lm: VERTICAL KANA REPEAT WITH VOICED SOUND MARK
>>> U+3033: Lm: VERTICAL KANA REPEAT MARK UPPER HALF
>>> U+3034: Lm: VERTICAL KANA REPEAT WITH VOICED SOUND MARK UPPER HALF
>>> U+3035: Lm: VERTICAL KANA REPEAT MARK LOWER HALF
>>> U+303B: Lm: VERTICAL IDEOGRAPHIC ITERATION MARK
>>
>> ...you say that 303B should be added, and not the others?
>
> No, what I was saying was that all 6 should be treated
> the same in the spec.
>
> Then for all 6 (as Martin agreed), the best and most defensible  
> choice is
> DISALLOWED. I could live with all 6 being PVALID (which
> wouldn't be too terribly harmful, and which wouldn't require
> doing anything at all in the exceptions list for them).
> The worst choice is CONTEXTO, because that just complicates
> the spec unnecessarily trying to define context rules for
> characters nobody could reasonably want to use in IDNs anyway.
>
> --Ken
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