On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:40:25 +0330 (IRT) Roozbeh Pournader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 > Is this consensus regarding current use of DNS or is this regarding future IDN? Or is this regarding more user oriented Web services?
Liana
