I guess both of 卍and 卐 (swastika, स्वस्तिक) were imported into Chinese characters from ancient India Buddhism hundreds years ago Both of them mean something like luck or fortune in east Asia. Most western people don’t know them until one of them was borrowed by Nazi. What about leave the problem to IP or policy guys. Let's finish repertoire, variant coordination and generation rules first. -----邮件原件----- 发件人: chinesegp-bounces@icann.org [mailto:chinesegp-bounces@icann.org] 代表 Yoshiro YONEYA 发送时间: 2015年5月12日 9:55 收件人: Dillon, Chris 抄送: ChineseGP@icann.org; KoreanGP@icann.org; JapaneseGP@icann.org 主题: Re: [ChineseGP] Characters likely to cause offence Dear Chris-san,
I suspect there may be other characters in there that could cause offence, but 卐 5350 could be horribly abused. I realize that the character it represents is used innocently in temples.
The reason why this character (U+5350) is in J-LGR-2 is that this is defined as variant of U+534D in C-LGR-1. U+534D is in J-LGR-1 repertoire, so it was integrated into J-LGR-2 by proposed integration algorithm. As you see in J-LGR-2.xlsx, U+5350 is marked as (o) or (b), so it will never appear on Root zone if it is used in applied-for string as Japanese IDN TLD. Regards, -- Yoshiro YONEYA <yoshiro.yoneya@jprs.co.jp> On Mon, 11 May 2015 14:02:14 +0000 "Dillon, Chris" <c.dillon@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear Yoneya-san,
I mentioned in my last email that one of the things I found in J-LGR-2.xlsx was of a more serious nature.
I suspect there may be other characters in there that could cause offence, but 卐 5350 could be horribly abused. I realize that the character it represents is used innocently in temples.
It is not our responsibility to make decisions about cases such as this and as far as I know, no part of the existing system deals with them. However, having observed long discussion over cases such as .xxx and .sucks, alarm bells do go off and one feels one should draw 5350 to the attention of colleagues.
Regards,
Chris. -- Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599) www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon
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