Re: Just send UTF-8 with nameprep (was: RE: [idn]Reality Check)

[Dan Ebert <dan@enic.cc>]

Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Martin Duerst wrote:
> 
> > I don't want to disagree with your conclusion, but I'm not
> > sure about the premise (that we need the original spelling),
> > so I didn't get into the details of what would follow.
> 
> We may need original spelling, for example if we decide that we need to
> stop Arabic letters from joining, by using a ZWNJ between them (since a
> space is not available). Multiword Arabic domain names will be unreadable
> if the words join. But since ZNWJ is stripped at nameprep, we will
> sometimes need to get to the original. You get the idea.
> 
> roozbeh

It is possible to prevent Arabic letters from joining by separating
words by hyphens.  While I don't think this isn't something which should
be incoporated into any kind of proposal, it may be a useful convention
for the registration of Arabic names. I am not an Arabic speaker so I
don't know how acceptable this would be, but it is a possible solution.

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Dan Ebert      <dan@enic.cc>       eNIC Corporation
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