Re: [idn] Cherokee letters look like uppercase Latin letters

["Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>]

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/unsupported.html will help us
to find that UNICODE 3.1 does not contain all the modern scripts that
may be added in near future.

Soobok Lee
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Modern Scripts
The following scripts in current use in living communities are not yet
supported in Unicode. Extensions to Unicode (and ISO/IEC 10646) which
will address the needs of these scripts are being developed and
evaluated by both the Unicode Technical Committee and by ISO JTC1/SC2/WG2.
See Proposed New Scripts for details.

Kirat (Limbu)
Manipuri (Meithei, Kanglei)
Moso (Naxi)
Pahawh Hmong
Rong (Lepcha)
Tai Lu
Tai Mau
Tifinagh



Scripts awaiting approval or proposed

Philippine Scripts

Tagalog
Hanunoo
Buhid
Tagbanwa

Cham
Tai (Dai) scripts
Glagolitic
Coptic
Buginese
Old Hungarian
Phoenician
Avestan
Tifinagh (Berber)
Javanese
Lepcha (Rong)
For Plane 1 (surrogates)

Basic Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Meroitic
Old Persian Cuneiform
Ugaritic Cuneiform
Tengwar
Cirth
tlhIngan Hol
Brahmi
Old Permic
South Arabian
Pollard
Blissymbolics
Soyombo
Last updated 27-March-2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>
To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [idn] Cherokee letters look like uppercase Latin letters


>
> The initial ascii domain idea  was not a mistake, but a
> practical choice  in so early stage of the internet when
> we had no standard for UNICODE-like universal character set .
>
> Uppercase Latin 'A' is case-folded into latin 'a'.
> Cyrillic 'A' is also case-folded into cyrillic 'a'.
> (latin 'a' and cyrillic 'a' still look the same.)
>
> But Cherokee 'A' has no lowercase letter for it.
>
> Prefix-based Versioning on ACE may help to ease this situation around
> Cherokee and new scripts blocks to be added to UCS
> in the future.
>
> For future script additions to UCS ,we have no nameprep rules now.
> As long as we should enforce current NAMEPREP rules, we are also prohibiting
> future script additions from being used in IDN that will have to be
nameprepped
> by the future versions of ACE and NAMEPREP rules.
>
> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html will help to guess
> the agenda for future ACE and NAMEPREP versioning.
>
> Regards, Soobok Lee
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yves Arrouye" <yves@realnames.com>
> To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:25 PM
> Subject: RE: [idn] Cherokee letters look like uppercase Latin letters
>
>
> >
> > > Do we need to allow Cherokee letters in IDN?
> >
> > It would be quite bad to deny access to IDN to one population, yes! After
> > all, we're internationalizing DNS because some populations have been left
> > over initially and we want to fix that.
> >
> > I find very interesting (and ironic) to see these suggestions about
> > removing characters whose glyphs may confuse some people. It is a similar
> > reasoning that led to the choice of the initial set of characters allowed
> > in DNS labels, and I am sure that in the world of then, complex scripts or
> > even exotic scripts would have been dismissed for fear of confusion for the
> > typical user. Are you really seriously suggesting to do the same mistake
> > again, but with different populations?!
> >
> > YA
> >
>
>