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

[iftakhar shah]

Dear Siavash
 
In case of Pakistani languages, we would also required ZWNJ.
 
Dr. Sarmad Hussain sb, please correct me if i am worng.
 
Regards
 
Iftikhar

From: Siavash Shahshahani <shahshah at irnic.ir>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com>
Cc: arabic-vip at icann.org
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [arabic-vip] ZWNJ (earlier: [vip] Overarching principles used in Devanagari team report)

Speaking now only as a Persian speaker, I think we could live without ZWNJ
in the TLD label because I suspect all such labels may be too long to be
attractive as TLDs (unless some brands may require it). On the other hand,
I'd be very curious to know how Urdu, other Pakistani-language speakers and
Kurdish speakers feel about this. I have heard that ZWNJ is very prevalent
in common Kurdish writing. Maybe Behnam knows this or can arrange quickly
for outreach to Kurdish experts.
Siavash

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:20:39 -0400, Andrew Sullivan
<ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> 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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