[UA-discuss] Arabic Letters and Punycode Conversion

Abdalmonem Tharwat Galila agalila at mcit.gov.eg
Tue Jun 5 08:09:19 UTC 2018


Could you try this Punycode converter ?

https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-registry-products/idn/idn-conversion-tool/index.xhtml


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From: UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2018 9:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Arabic Letters and Punycode Conversion

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 02:54:55PM +0200, Chaals Nevile wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> do you mean limited to a string of length 57, or that there are 57 
> characters that can be converted to punycode (I am not sure how many 
> different Arabic letters are possible when counting all the possible 
> combinations of diacritics...)

In any case, Punycode can represent all of Unicode, because of the way it is designed, so it is not true that only 57 characters "can be converted to punycode".  It might be that some zone's policies, however, are sufficiently restrictive that only 57 Arabic code points are permitted.

Best regards,

A

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