[arabic-vip] ZWNJ (earlier: [vip] Overarching principles used in Devanagari team report)

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 08:21:04AM +0200, Manal Ismail wrote:
> Yes, I just don't remember a clear concluding statement ..
> Yet, for me, I implicitly concluded from the conversation that the Persian language community (and maybe others too) would need the ZWNJ ..
>  

The difficulty is that the current ICANN policy for accepting a label
into the root (and the proposal in the Internet Draft as well)
requires that all code points in a candidate label have general
category of (one of) { Ll, Lo, Lm, Mn }.  Since ZWNJ is not one of
those, it would not be permitted.  So if this really is a requirement,
it needs to be stated quite strongly.

Best,

A


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