[UA-discuss] End of nontraditional processing

[Asmus Freytag]

On 3/1/2023 3:52 PM, Jim DeLaHunt via UA-discuss wrote:
>
> Asmus:
>
> This is interesting! Could you please give a link to the proposal — a 
> document number, a URL, a link to an email thread?
>
This discussion is internal to the relevant sub-group in Unicode, for 
the moment. A publicly visible document may show up for the agenda of 
the next UTC meeting. (Until then, you'd have to be a collaborator or 
member to access the details, and if you are, you know where to look).

> From what I have seen of software developers wanting to stick with 
> IDNA 2003 instead of moving to IDNA 2008, the declarations of UTS #46 
> do not seem to be a major factor. UTS #46 talks of a transition, but I 
> don't hear developers talking about being mid-transition. The use 
> using IDNA 2003 seem to want to stay with IDNA 2003 until some other 
> factor — like a library, or a more important piece of software in 
> their ecosystem — changes to adopt IDNA 2008.
>
Yeah, my impression as well, but this would be a small step to mark the 
beginning of the end. The proposal deliberately chooses to "deprecate", 
not remove, at this point. Hoping that sends a signal.

A./

> Best regards,
>     —Jim DeLaHunt
>
> On 2023-02-23 14:16, Asmus Freytag via UA-discuss wrote:
>>
>> Just a heads up for whoever is interested:
>>
>> There is a proposal in the works in the Unicode Consortium to 
>> deprecate the "deviation" mappings in UTS#46 and to declare the 
>> transitional period to be over. This recognizes the fact that some 
>> registries are no longer compatible with the deviation mappings and 
>> some browsers have stopped supporting them.
>>
>> Four characters are affected, including ß and final sigma.
>>
>> A./
>>
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