RE: New Name Registry Using Unicode

From: Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 09:46:33 EDT


Antoine Leca wrote:
> tom@bluesky.org wrote:
> > For purposes of name registration uniqueness, the only significant
> > characters are numbers and letter as defined by the Java
> isLetterOrDigit
> > function returning TRUE. This function determines if a
> character is a
> > letter or digit according to the Unicode 2.0 standard
> [...]
>
> Which means that Sinhalese, Thaana, Syriac etc. are forbidden. [...]

Add the Ethiopic script, representing several more millions people who will
be disappointed.

And add all the newly added CJK ideographs, which are required in *proper
names* (i.e. exactly the matter that domain names are made of, in most
cases).

_ Marco



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