An Entire Bidi Language

Harald Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Sun Nov 1 08:50:33 CET 2009


Shawn Steele wrote:
>
> “and in at least one case meant that all the words of an entire 
> language were forbidden as IDN labels.”
>
> Which begs the question: Which language? Any reason not to say in the 
> draft? I know if I quote that, it’d be the 1st question I get asked.
>
Dhivehi.

Section 4.1 of the bidi draft:

.... Every Dhivehi word therefore ends with a combining mark.

Words ending with combining marks were not permitted under IDNA2003.
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> - Shawn
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