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

[Mohammed El-Bashir]

>From a user interface or applications prospective, delegated or active variants set will face almost the same current IDN issues related to user interfaces and applications .

But also there is also variants only specific issues For example whois and who variants are displayed, and also registry systems should be able to handle variants .

Kind Regards,
Mohamed

On Sep 23, 2011, at 8:16 PM, "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:

> 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


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