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Re: [idn] something a little lighter for the weekend

To: IETF idn working group <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [idn] something a little lighter for the weekend
From: "Adam M. Costello" <idn.amc+0@nicemice.net.RemoveThisWord>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:02:48 +0000
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Doug Ewell <dewell@adelphia.net> wrote:

> There may be 52 scripts currently encoded in Unicode, but I am sure
> Unicode does not claim that is the total number of scripts in the
> world.  Others can and will be encoded.

Michel Suignard <michelsu@windows.microsoft.com> wrote:

> The 2 current amendments of ISO/IEC 10646 (The ISO sibling of Unicode)
> being processed are adding about 10 new scripts.  And a new amendment
> will be initiated in September with few more scripts.  Any scheme
> based on a finite number of scripts is doomed.

Of course the number 52 would not be hard-coded into the policy.  It
would be expressed as "the number of Unicode scripts supported by the
latest version of IDNA".

Unicode tends to grow linearly, not exponentially, so that shouldn't
present a scaling problem.

AMC

References:
- Re: [idn] punctuation
  - From: tedd <tedd@sperling.com>
- Re: [idn] punctuation
  - From: John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>
- Re: [idn] punctuation
  - From: Erik van der Poel <erik@vanderpoel.org>
- Re: [idn] punctuation
  - From: John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>
- [idn] process
  - From: Erik van der Poel <erik@vanderpoel.org>
- Re: [idn] process
  - From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
- Re: [idn] process
  - From: "Adam M. Costello" <idn.amc+0@nicemice.net.RemoveThisWord>
- [idn] something a little lighter for the weekend
  - From: Erik van der Poel <erik@vanderpoel.org>
- Re: [idn] something a little lighter for the weekend
  - From: "Adam M. Costello" <idn.amc+0@nicemice.net.RemoveThisWord>
- Re: [idn] something a little lighter for the weekend
  - From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>

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