Re: New Internet Draft on registering IDNs

[tedd <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  > I think this group has made some significant progress in that
> >  some characters have been already mapped to others -- such as all
> >  occurrences of glyphs looking like "A" and have been mapped to "a" and
> >  so on.
>
> What are you refering to?  I don't know of anyone who has done that.

AMC:

Please forgive me, perhaps I'm not using the right terminology, but 
clearly "A" has been mapped to "a" already.

Try using nameprep found at --

http://www.imc.org/nameprep/

-- and see what happens when you enter a HEX string of 0041 (A). You 
will find that it has been mapped to 0061 (a) -- as it has always 
been.

But please note that every glyph that looks like "A" has also been 
mapped to 0061 (a). For example, from the newer Unicode Mathematical 
Alphanumeric Symbols table every "A" (1D400 to 1D670 ) has been 
mapped to 0061 (a) as well.  I believe there are thirteen in all, 
namely bold, italic, bold-italic, script, bold-script, fraktur, 
double-struck, bold-frakture, sans-serif, sans-serif-bold, 
sans-serif-italic, sans-serif-bold-italic and monospace A's have been 
mapped to 0061 (a).

That's what I meant about characters being mapped to others -- is 
there a better way to say this?

Thanks.

tedd
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