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

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Tue Jul 28 00:43:32 CEST 2009


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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