- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:15:03 +0000
- To: "\"Adam Twardoch\" (by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>)" <list.adam@twardoch.com>
- CC: www-international@w3.org
Adam Twardoch (by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>) wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hudson" <tiro@tiro.com> > >> The security issue is simply due to the fact that some characters >> typically look identical to other characters. So change the appearance. > > > Nah. It's poor design of IDN. They should have disallowed mixing > characters from different scripts in one URL. 01234... are sometime called arabic digits and belong also to arabic script (used in western Arabic countries). www.UNIV5.ma, where UNIV5 are in arabic, would be wrong? > It wouldn't have ruled out all of the problems, but most of them. > > A. > > > > > > > -- Najib TOUNSI (mailto:tounsi@w3.org) Bureau W3C au Maroc (http://www.w3c.org.ma/) Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs, BP 765 Agdal-RABAT Maroc (Morocco) Phone : +212 (0) 37 68 71 74 Fax : +212 (0) 37 77 88 53 Mobile: +212 (0) 61 22 00 30
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