On 4/19/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Jeffrey Yasskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... Are you saying that in your app, just because I've set > > > the en_US locale, I won't be able to type "????"? Or that those > > > characters won't be recognized as letters? > > The latter. Some applications may reject them for that reason; for > example some domain registrars have policies to prevent domain name > spoofing with similar-looking characters. One way to do that is to > say that a character used in a domain name (under that registrar) is > limited to those letters used by the appropriate national language.
Filtering to a certain language's alphabet is neither necessary nor sufficient for a domain registrar. They're going to implement their own system paying attention to http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/ (see particularly section 2.3 for why even a restriction to one script doesn't keep them safe), so they don't justify keeping an attractive nuisance in the standard library. -- Namasté, Jeffrey Yasskin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
