2010/11/25 "ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்" <[email protected]>: > How does European languages solve such issues? > Hope there are similar codepoints across languages there too.
Across scripts, to be precise. Yes. If you look at Latin vs Cyrillic you can make another a list of such characters. Most of those characters are already there in Confusables.txt, *I think* -- I did not check. > Not sure, What Unicode can do about this. Unicode as an encoding standard can't do anything about this per se except adding the relevant characters to Confusables.txt and recommending that in IDNs one should ensure that there is no name conflict *after* collapsing the glyphically identical characters to one. > Not sure, if this comes under ICANN & it has/ shall have a policy not mingle > code-point between ranges, in a single domain name registration. There was already a post that said that ICANN recommends NOT to mix scripts within a single domain name. *However*, I pointed out that the problem exists even if scripts are not mixed this way -- ಈನಾಡು.com and ఈనాడు.com are both composed of Kannada and Telugu codepoints separately. No mixing. > But, if raised I am sure the Intellectual Property Rights office can take > care of such mischievous acts, at a later stage. Hey, when the bank account has been depleted by 10,000 rupees which you thought was for tsunami relief but which went to fill somebody's big bad belly, who cares about Intellectual Property Rights? The problem is *money* (oh yeah, privacy too to a certain extent, but it's always money), which causes the urgency of the security question. Leave the abstract things like IP for later. Shriramana Sharma.
