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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am a bit confused about how our IDN table should be structured with respect to variants as I feel section 5, A Model Table Format, of RFC 4290 (<a href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4290.txt">https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4290.txt</a>) is
a bit ambiguous. I am therefore hoping there is somebody out there with experience of these things that could help me. I have looked at other IDN tables but none seem to help me with the issue below. The RFC states:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Each non-comment line in the table starts with the character that is allowed in the registry and expected to be used in registrations, which is also called the "base character".<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It then goes on to say:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>If the base character has any variants, the base character is followed by a vertical bar character ("|", ASCII 0x7C) and the variant string. If the base character has more than one variant, the variants are separated by a colon (":",
ASCII 0x3A).<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So if I have the following characters which are equivalent within the registry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>e (U+0065) = è (U+00E8) = é (U+00E9) = ê (U+00EA) = ë (U+00EB)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Would my table need to be<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>U+0065|U+00E8:U+00E9:U+00EA:U+00EB # LATIN SMALL LETTER E (e)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">which implies that everything after the | is an allowed character or do I have to explicitly take the first statement above into account where I need to put each character with its variants in a separate line therefore listing out all combinations
i.e.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>U+0065|U+00E8:U+00E9:U+00EA:U+00EB # LATIN SMALL LETTER E (e)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>U+00E8|U+0065:U+00E9:U+00EA:U+00EB # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>U+00E9|U+0065:U+00E8:U+00EA:U+00EB # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>U+00EA|U+0065:U+00E8:U+00E9:U+00EB # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>U+00EB|U+0065:U+00E8:U+00E9:U+00EA # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If the second method is the correct way does the order then become important?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any help would be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John Hollifield<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GTLD Systems and Business Data Lead<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nominet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tel: 01865 332333<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mob: 07979 696734<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a href="mailto:John.Hollifield@nominet.org.uk">John.Hollifield@nominet.org.uk</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John Hollifield<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GTLD Systems and Business Data Lead<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nominet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tel: 01865 332333<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mob: 07979 696734<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a href="mailto:John.Hollifield@nominet.org.uk"><span style="color:blue">John.Hollifield@nominet.org.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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