- From: Kane, Pat <pkane@verisign.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:04:25 +0900
- To: www-international@w3.org
Commingling of scripts certainly is the issue here but they must be permitted for certain communities as their languages utilize multiple characters from multiple scripts. During the development of ICANN痴 IDN guidelines I presented the details about the script mixing within com and net. There were very few issues around the mixing of Latin and other scripts with the exception of Cyrillic and Greek. However, there are several former Soviet Union nations that originally used Latin characters then converted to Cyrillic characters and who are now returning to Latin that need just this commingling. Yes, there are very few registrations that come from Tajikistan, but these are the types of communities that IDNs were developed for. CJK share characters on a regular basis. The largest script mixing that we have in com and net is between Kanji and Katakana. This is legitimate script mixing. Even the Bengali/Katakana registrations that are in com are legitimate I am told as there was a significant Japanese population that remained in SE Asia after WWII. Pat Kane
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