On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 20:29:27 +0200, Tex <textexin@xencraft.com> wrote:
If UASG were to recommend prohibiting emoji in mailbox names, are we referring strictly to emoji or more generally graphical characters such as wingdings and line drawing characters, etc.?
We need to declare an explicit list of characters that should be avoided.
A small detail - I think we rather should declare a whitelist of things that are acceptable.
As the argument against allowing emoji is largely based on confusability, I would recommend the prohibition be worded to say they should be avoided for now until such time as a sensible list of allowed emoji can be provided.
+1
There is sufficient demand that people will want to use certain emoji and the solution would be to allow a list of useful emoji that are not confusable.
Indeed.
For example, a single heart emoji could be allowed so that people (or corporations or other entities) could use I♥NYC without mistaking how to enter or write it or confusing it with other similar looking characters.
More generally, there needs to be a list of the characters that are allowed or disallowed in mailbox names, as that list may need to be different from domain names, and there are characters besides emoji that may be confusable or problematic in mailboxes.
Hmm. There is a core difference in assumptions here. For a domain, it is possible in principle for someone to register a different - but confusingly similar - domain. For an email address, the domain owner determines whether this problem can arise, and so the assumption is that they will fix it (unlike the assumption we make about domain registrars, in the parallel cases like Coremail, Yandex Mail, and so on). This needs thinking out, but "emoji are inferior to other characters and should not be used so that's the end of discussion" seems like an argument dangerously at odds with perceived reality. cheers Chaals -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/