Re: Fwd: Eeek - .NU Domains using

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 08:09 AM 1/10/00 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>At 17:29 09.01.00 -0800, Bill Manning wrote:
>
>>I'd be strongly in favor of not mixing glyphs between sets.
>
>but we can't tell whether we are doing this without defining what a "set" 
>is, which gets us started down the implementation slippery slope.

Precisely right.

>We can say that "there is no requirement for mixing A with B inside a 
>single label", where A and B are different subsets of the set of all 
>characters.
>Giving a few examples is probably Good Enough for the requirements.

I disagree that we can say "there is no requirement". There may be no 
*current* requirement, but we don't know about the future. Why should we 
limit this now?

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