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

[liana.ydisg@juno.com]

This use of  hyphen is permitted in [nameprep], and is often
used by Chinese from Taiwan.  As far as I know, it is occasionally
needed for Korean, and I think it should be used to replace " ' " 
of Pinyin standard for IDN names. 

Liana

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:48:58 -0700 Dan Ebert <dan@enic.cc> writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Dan Ebert      <dan@enic.cc>       eNIC Corporation
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