Using hyphen in Japanese would be a bit confusing, as a different dash is used to indicate long vowels.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Just send UTF-8 with nameprep (was: RE: [idn]Reality Check) > This use of hyphen is permitted in [nameprep], and is often > used by Chinese from Taiwan. As far as I know, it is occasionally > needed for Korean, and I think it should be used to replace " ' " > of Pinyin standard for IDN names. > > Liana > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:48:58 -0700 Dan Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Martin Duerst wrote: > > > > > > > I don't want to disagree with your conclusion, but I'm not > > > > sure about the premise (that we need the original spelling), > > > > so I didn't get into the details of what would follow. > > > > > > 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. But since ZNWJ is stripped at nameprep, we will > > > sometimes need to get to the original. You get the idea. > > > > > > roozbeh > > > > It is possible to prevent Arabic letters from joining by separating > > words by hyphens. While I don't think this isn't something which > > should > > be incoporated into any kind of proposal, it may be a useful > > convention > > for the registration of Arabic names. I am not an Arabic speaker so > > I > > don't know how acceptable this would be, but it is a possible > > solution. > > > > -- > > Dan Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eNIC Corporation > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >
