[UA-EAI] WhatWG issue regarding <input type="email"> is open (#4562)

[Martin J. Dürst]

On 09/06/2020 20:46, Andre Schappo wrote:
> Well because unicode contains formatting characters, delete, direction indicators, tags, joiners ...etc...
> 
> One could have a fairly high level constraint: the EAI can only consist of characters assigned to specific scripts in https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/Scripts.txt


With 'specific scripts', I guess you mean to exclude 'Common'. Well, 
that would exclude '-' and some others (assuming we apply this to ASCII, 
too), and similar things outside ASCII. Some of the exclusions would 
make sense, but some others might not.

Regards,   Martin.

> André Schappo
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> Sent: 09 June 2020 12:33
> To: ua-eai at icann.org <ua-eai at icann.org>
> Subject: Re: [UA-EAI] WhatWG issue regarding <input type="email"> is open (#4562)
> 
> On Tuesday 9 June 2020 13:24:07 CEST, Andre Schappo wrote:
>> Having unconstrained EAI (ie any unicode character) would not
>> work as has been discussed many times.
> 
> Could you explain it once more? Perhaps an example would help. You can
> explain why it wouldn't work for this page: https://github.com/join
> 
> Arnt
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