On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Philip Newton wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:35, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm against them from an impersonation aspect, confusing users, etc. >> If we can find a good/useful way of supporting them (i.e., allowing >> people to register usernames with accented characters, and then we >> allow this sort of subdomain) then sure, but otherwise, let's not. > > It might be worth looking at what ccTLD registries do; they have to > contend with things like that. See > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#Top-Level_Domains_known_to_accept_IDN_registration> > ( http://xrl.us/bedqnu ) > > Perhaps one way would be to require names to contain only one script > (only Latin, or only Arabic, or only Hebrew, etc.). Though maybe even > only-Grek and especially only-Cyrillic would clash with Latin given > that several letterforms are similar. > > What's probably least problematic is allowing only Latin, including > accented Latin, but no other scripts.
Which "accented Latin"? 8859-1? 8859-2? 8859-15? (And I'm probably missing some) _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
