Re: [idn] new I-D: Safely Encoding of likeness information into ACE label version 0.2

["Mark Davis" <mark@macchiato.com>]

Such a disambiguating font is certainly possible, and one of the possible
approaches to GUI-assists. What we could do is add text to IDNA to recommend
that domain names be displayed in such a way as to disambiguate confusibles.

Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark@macchiato.com>
Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 07:31
Subject: Re: [idn] new I-D: Safely Encoding of likeness information into ACE
label version 0.2


> Mark,
>
> How about recommending a disambiguaing  full-unicode-wide reference font
set
> for IDN
> with the best font size in IETF implementation guidelines for IDN-aware
> OS/application vendors ?
> The font set will help to reduce the list of pairs of ambiguous characters
to be
> compared,
> and encourge all application vendors to adopt  it as the default IDN font.
> For example, Greek 'rho' and latin 'p' may  look very different in that
font,
> while
> Cyrillic 'a' (borrowed from latin 'a') and Latin 'a' may still look
identical.
> Then
> we need normalize only 'a' s.
>
> Do think this is feasible ?
>
>  I found  http://www.unicode.org/charts already uses such good font. Is
the font
> for public domain?
>
>
> Soobok
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Davis" <mark@macchiato.com>
> To: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>; "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland
Maine"
> <brunner@nic-naa.net>
> Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [idn] new I-D: Safely Encoding of likeness information into
ACE
> label version 0.2
>
>
> > This is a pipe-dream. See my messages of
> > Wednesday, July 18, 2001 09:45
> > Thursday, July 19, 2001 08:20
> >
> > One might be fooled by how easy it is to come with with a simple list
> > between two scripts, such as Greek and Latin. But then the complications
> > arise: are rho and p to be considered confusable? Then there are
extended
> > characters, like Latin small letter open e (ɛ) and epsilon (ε).  You
rapidly
> > (I almost wrote "rabidly") slide off into gray areas even with just two
> > scripts. When it comes to comparing all the characters of the world, in
many
> > combinations of fonts, the problem quickly becomes intractible.
> >
> > We have had a lot of experience dealing with huge numbers of characters.
It
> > is harder than it looks.
> >
> > Mark
> > —————
> >
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> >
>
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