On 9/3/11 4:08 AM, "Cary Karp" <ck@nic.museum> wrote:
Since a label has no intrinsic attribute of language and there is no protocol restriction on the number of scripts that may appear in it, it is also be possible to write "kista” using a Cyrillic, rather than a Latin final letter. That gives "kistа”, and since the CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A and the LATIN SMALL LETTER A are commonly represented with the same glyph, the Swedish and the hybrid strings are visually identical. Not confusable -- identical. If we are comfortable in freeing the term "homograph” from the requirement that it applies to words in the same language, and are further willing to drop the requirement of the objects of comparison being words at all, then "kista” and "kistа” may also be termed homographs.
Besides protocol restrictions there could also be policy restrictions. For example, there could be a policy prohibiting TLD labels that have code points from Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Thoughts? __ Francisco