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

[Fahd Batayneh]

I totally agree with you Andrew. What I was trying to say is that while these variants look alike and/or are pronounced alike, each has a unique A-Label and U-Label, thus each is treated independently.

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From: arabic-vip-bounces at icann.org [mailto:arabic-vip-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 8:15 PM
To: arabic-vip at icann.org
Subject: Re: [arabic-vip] IDN-IDN Variants User Interface/Application issues

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

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