Michel Suignard wrote:
I have seen European standard bodies spending forests of paper to
try to establish these language tables, but there have never been
an authoritative version because simply you can't.
This is not a language table, it is basically all IDN allowable Latin
characters from Unicode block 0000-007F and 0100-017F. This covers
many European languages. As long as you don't call it a language
table we may be in agreement. Note btw that by doing this they are
excluding Welsh and Irish Gaelic which needs Latin characters in the
1Exx range. And obviously all Latin letters from the Extended-B are
not included, which is excluding de facto many European minorities.
All true - but "so what?". This is an official policy what characters
can be used in a "German" domain name, in the .de zone. Whether that
makes it a "language table", I don't care. This kind of table is what
we have been talking about all along.
I am not advocating for script mix as
you may hint. I am not saying either that the the DENIC list is bad.
It is in fact reasonable (with the minor caveat expressed above), but
it is by no mean a German language table or even an European language
table.
This is not the point. The point was your claim: "there cannot be an
official table", and I'm merely trying to say "but there is". Now,
I see that you make a difference between a character table for a
language, and a "language table"; I was unaware that "language table"
is a reserved term.
I never said that. I am just saying that subsetting Unicode script
per language won't work.
But we are not talking about typesetting here: this is about DNS.
Regards,
Martin
