Re: [idn] Forbidden characters

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 12:11 01/07/27 +1000, Mark.Andrews@nominum.com wrote:

> > Again, they are not forbidden. They can be used as input. What is not clear
> > (and controversial here) is whether you will ever get them back or not when
> > you decode the ACE. Some ACE preserve case. But normalization can't be
> > undone, so as you said, the name service cannot return them. We won't get
> > about adding a new RR for that here, but while I am for preserving case but
> > may live without it (after all, DNS names are not pretty, if I want
> > prettiness I'll use a layer above it), Roozbeh's comments about Arabic 
> names
> > becoming different to their reader because of spontaneous joining of glyphs
> > certainly may spark some thinking.
> >
> > YA
> >
>         We have the same problem in English today.

Yes and no. In Arabic, you cannot just put together two words as you
can in English; if you do that, then cursive joining kicks in and
you may get another word (same as below) or something completely
unreadable.

Regards, Martin.



>         Say I had a store called "To Get Her Gifts".  Smashing the
>         word together to get a domain name might not be what you
>         what, e.g. togethergifts.com.  Especially if next door is
>         "Together Gifts".
>
>         There are also plenty of cases where a made up word in one
>         language turns out to be a real word in a different language.
>
>         You need to think before you register / create a domain name,
>         not just run on automatic pilot.
>
>         Mark
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