Re: [idn] Re: Just send UTF-8 with nameprep

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, David Hopwood wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> What's wrong with using hyphens to separate words?

Nothing's wrong. I only see using ZWNJ as an alternative. With English
domain names, you can have both 'damnthisworld.com' and
'damn-this-world.com'. With Arabic, you will have only the second choice,
since the first one will not be readable. I think that using ZWNJ may help
having more choices...