If mixing of code points across scripts is not allowed. That is good, it will solve many of the so called security issues in domain names with one strike. But then what do we do with mixing of English and Telugu? mixing of English and Kannada? Do we allow it ? What do we do with numbers? can some one mix English script numbers(**) with Telugu script numbers? Or the name is to be strictly Telugu, including numbers. Then at least Telugu script names are not going to be suffering from this security problem. Sorry I haven't done my home work about current RFC on this topic yet. These are just immediate thoughts.
---- (**) (to a layman they are simply English numbers Vs Telugu numbers, so pardon my ignorance about proper script names (latiin script numbers?) :-) ) ---- ~Kiran Kumar Chava http://geek.chavakiran.com -- Tech Blog http://te.chavakiran.com/blog -- Telugu Blog http://en.chavakiran.com/blog -- English Blog 2010/11/25 Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> > 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. > > >
