[arabic-vip] IDN-IDN Variants User Interface/Application issues

[Andrew Sullivan]

Dear colleagues,

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 06:49:34PM +0300, Fahd Batayneh wrote:

> Iftikhar, since Mohammad and myself worked on the document you are
> referring to, I can claim to answer your question. You see, the
> issues mentioned in the document are applicable to one IDN (one
> unique A-Label), and since variants represent the same domain name
> but with different A-Labels, we can consider that the same issues
> mentioned in the document apply to each unique A-Label regardless.

They're neither the same domain name as U-label nor as A-label, I
think.  That is, if you have a variant, it is because there are two
U-labels for the same string of abstract characters, once those
abstract characters are coded in Unicode and normalized using NFC; or
else for two such strings that are too close to be reliably
distinguished by users.  If they were the same string, then there'd be
no problem.

Right?

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan
ajs at anvilwalrusden.com