On 16/12/2003 08:41, Kent Karlsson wrote:
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Yes. And as it happens, dotless-i case-*folds* to (soft)dotted-i,
so you cannot register an IDN that after "nameprep" has a dotless-i
in it, since that name isn't correctly "nameprepped".
This does not guard against <(soft)dotted-i, dot-above>, but for
the registered part of a domain name, registrars are *supposed* to
have some rules for what is allowed, and what is not (for that paticular
registrar). E.g. the Swedish domain name registry *currently* allows
only ASCII letters plus ���� (after "nameprep") in domain names they
register, though this may be somewhat augmented in the future
(to cover Sami too at least, maybe more). This kind of solution
was driven mainly by the issue of the traditional chinese vs.
simplified chinese problem, but that approach applies to cases
like <dotless i, dot-above> too.
If the Swedish registry allows all the letters used in Swedish and Sami,
and far eastern registries allow Chinese characters, the Turkish and
Azerbaijani registries should allow, and be allowed to allow, all the
letters of the alphabets of their national languages.
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