Unicode Consortium Liaison Report – March 2005

Patrik Fältström

Nothing reported back on UAX #15.

Issue #61 Proposed Update UAX #15 Unicode Normalization Forms
A proposed update to UAX #15 for Unicode 4.1.0 is
available. The proposed changes are listed in the Modifications section of the document.

(http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/tr15-24.html)

Draft of draft 3 of TR36 is ready as

http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/draft/.

Especially one can point out:

• http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/draft/confusables.txt is a start on characters that are confusable, and thus can cause some domain names to be rejected (see the text on how this would work).
• http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/draft/special_purpose.txt is a start on characters that are to be excluded (at some security level).
• http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/draft/idn-chars.html is all the characters allowed in international domain names.