Re: [idn] Q

["Mark Davis" <mark@macchiato.com>]

Common terminology is ambiguous. In Unicode we refer to

U+0030... as European Numbers
U+0600... as Arabic-Indic Numbers
U+0966... as Indic (Devanagari) Numbers

Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jarallah Aljarallah" <jarallah@email.com>
To: "Wael Nasr" <wael@i-dns.net>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Cc: <arabic@minc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 09:51
Subject: RE: [idn] Q


> It seems that there is a misunderstanding here. The Arabic numbers are
0123456789.  These numbers are being used all over the world.
> The numbers that Wael is talking about are Indian numbers.
>
> I suggest that the Arabic domain names include Arabic alphabet and Arabic
numbers.
>
> Regards,
> Jarallah Aljarallah
> Native Names Corp.
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: "Wael Nasr" <wael.nasr@i-dns.net>
> To: idn@ops.ietf.org
> Sent: November 13, 2000 10:02:00 AM GMT
> Subject: [idn] Q
>
>
> With the arabic language
> the zero is like the dot in .com
>
> Is this a similar problem in other languages?
> do you allow it in domian names?
>
> Also, How do you make a decent appreviation for
> a company or center name to come up with something
> as nice as IBM for international business machines?
>
> there is no standard way in arabic that I am aware of
>
> sorry if this is outside what you are discussing right now
>
> Rgs
> wael Nasr
>
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