Re: [idn] hostname history hell

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

> Note that many scripts inherently include combining characters. I
> absolutely agree with Kent that a blanket prohibition of combining
> characters is unacceptable. In a discussion dominated by English,
> Chinese, and Korean speaker/writers, it might seem o.k., but I
> assure you that if there were as many Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, and
> Bengali speaker/writers participating, it would *not* seem o.k.

I cannot speak for Indic scripts/languages, but from what I have found in 
the technical mailing list of AINC (Arabic Internet Names Consortium), and 
the Urdu Computing mailing list (where the current agenda is Urdu domain 
names), the consensus is not allowing combining marks in Arabic script 
internet names.

Just my two cents,

roozbeh