From: Patrick Andries (patrick.andries@xcential.com)
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 08:34:48 CST
sPeter Kirk a écrit :
> On 24/03/2005 06:51, Patrick Andries wrote:
>
>> ...
>> I wonder what extra security you gain by removing let say apostrophe,
>> hyphen, middle dot ? There is nothing wrong using caseless letters
>> or marks with other symbols from a bicameral script (it depends on
>> the writing system, that is the language using these characters).
>>
> I suspect the real problem with apostrophe is more one of backward
> compatibility with existing software.
Yes, I also thought so but compatibility is a different issue than
security (see name of thread). I also thought that IDN were supposed to
free us from some of the compatibility baggage (basic Ascii).
P. .A
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Thu Mar 24 2005 - 08:35:43 CST