Looking at character frequencies in web documents, the frequency of U+0673 cannot be separated from noise. Haven't yet looked at URLs.
Mark 2009/6/1 Shawn Steele <shawn.ste...@microsoft.com> > I'm curious how this impacts IDNA2003 compatibility and particularly the > proposed IDNA2008 mappings. I suppose it is unlikely that this character is > currently registered in a "real" URL? > > -Shawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: idna-update-boun...@alvestrand.no [mailto: > idna-update-boun...@alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Patrik Fältström > Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 1:56 AM > To: IETF Discussion; IDNA update work > Subject: Fwd: [Unicode Announcement] New Public Review Issue #147: Proposed > Deprecation of U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW > > As the liaison from IETF to the Unicode Consortium, I would like to make > the IETF community aware of the following opening for public comments. > > The character U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW that the > review is related to has today the derived property value "PVALID" in the > current proposal discussed in the IDNABIS working group. > > Because of this, I encourage interested parties to respond to the questions > stated below. > > I am confident IETF and Unicode Consortium will be able to synchronize the > two standards so that there is no incompatibility issues. > > Patrik Fältström > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: announceme...@unicode.org > > Date: fr 29 maj 2009 00.25.49 GMT+02:00 > > To: announceme...@unicode.org > > Subject: [Unicode Announcement] New Public Review Issue #147: > > Proposed Deprecation of U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA > > BELOW > > Reply-To: r...@unicode.org > > > > The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public > > review and comment. Details are on the following web page: > > > > http://www.unicode.org/review/ > > > > Review periods for the new item closes on August 3, 2009. > > > > Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents. > > Briefly, the new issue is: > > > > > > PRI #147: Proposed Deprecation of U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY > > HAMZA BELOW > > > > The UTC has recently approved a proposal to encode an ARABIC WAVY > > HAMZA BELOW for a future version of the Unicode Standard. That > > character is used productively in Kashmiri and other languages, and is > > applied to letters other than ALEF. The intent is to deprecate the > > existing character U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW, in > > favor of the sequence of an ALEF plus the new ARABIC WAVY HAMZA BELOW. > > (Because of normalization stability constraints, a canonical > > equivalence relation cannot be established.) > > > > The UTC is seeking feedback on whether U+0673 should be deprecated > > when ARABIC WAVY HAMZA BELOW is encoded. Pertinent information would > > include data on how widespread usage of this character is. Note that > > deprecation of a character does not mean removal of that character > > from the standard; it merely constitutes a strong recommendation not > > to use the character. > > > > > > If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them > > by submitting your comments through our feedback & reporting page: > > > > http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html > > > > If you wish to discuss issues on the Unicode mail list, then please > > use the following link to subscribe (if necessary). Please be aware > > that discussion comments on the Unicode mail list are not > > automatically recorded as input to the UTC. You must use the reporting > > link above to generate comments for UTC consideration. > > > > http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html > > > > > > > > ---- > > All of the Unicode Consortium lists are strictly opt-in lists for > > members or interested users of our standards. We make every effort to > > remove users who do not wish to receive e-mail from us. To see why you > > are getting this mail and how to remove yourself from our lists if you > > want, please see > > http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html#announcements > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Idna-update mailing list > idna-upd...@alvestrand.no > http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/idna-update >
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