[Json] Json and U+08A1 and related cases (was: Re: Barry Leiba's Discuss on draft-ietf-json-i-json-05: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT))

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Thu Jan 22 14:11:15 CET 2015


Nico Williams scripsit:

> We should treat U+08A1 as confusable with U+0628 U+0654, advise
> registrars to disallow it, and otherwise let IDNA treat the two as
> distinct because Unicode does.

+1

In any case, nobody will need it; it's needed (as far as anyone knows)
only for one language, which hasn't been written in the Arabic script
for some time.  Disallowing it is like disallowing cuneiform.

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