Re: IDN Security

From: Patrick Andries (patrick.andries@xcential.com)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 07:07:03 CST

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    Peter Kirk a écrit :

    > On 15/02/2005 11:41, Neil Harris wrote:
    >
    >> ...
    >>
    >> In http://www.icann.org/committees/idn/idn-codepoint-input.htm, IANA
    >> recommend
    >> blacklisting the following Unicode character ranges as unusable
    >> within IDNs:
    >>
    >> ...
    >>
    >> I would go further, and add:
    >>
    >> * Spacing Modifier Letters
    >> ...
    >> * IPA Extensions
    >>
    > There should not be a blanket ban on using these characters in IDNs,
    > as some characters in both of these ranges are used as part of the
    > regular orthography of some modern languages. For example, Azerbaijani
    > (Latin) uses U+0259 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA and (officially) U+02BC
    > MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.

    I agree : banning IPA extensions is a bad idea. I mentioned this
    yesterday : living African languages use IPA extensions, for instance
    U+0253 in the Pan-nigerian alphabet.

    P. A.



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