Re: IDN Security

From: Patrick Andries (patrick.andries@xcential.com)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 07:07:03 CST

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Peter Kirk a écrit :

> On 15/02/2005 11:41, Neil Harris wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> In http://www.icann.org/committees/idn/idn-codepoint-input.htm, IANA
>> recommend
>> blacklisting the following Unicode character ranges as unusable
>> within IDNs:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I would go further, and add:
>>
>> * Spacing Modifier Letters
>> ...
>> * IPA Extensions
>>
> There should not be a blanket ban on using these characters in IDNs,
> as some characters in both of these ranges are used as part of the
> regular orthography of some modern languages. For example, Azerbaijani
> (Latin) uses U+0259 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA and (officially) U+02BC
> MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.

I agree : banning IPA extensions is a bad idea. I mentioned this
yesterday : living African languages use IPA extensions, for instance
U+0253 in the Pan-nigerian alphabet.

P. A.

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