Unicode Security Data: Beta Review

The documents and data for two Public Review Issues have been recently revised. The issues are PRI #272Proposed Update UTR #36, Unicode Security Considerations and PRI #273Proposed Update UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms.

We have revised the draft data forUTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms (confusables and identifier restrictions) for review. There are also some small changes to the text of UTR #36: Unicode Security Considerations, mostly cleanup in preparation for publication. The most important data files for review are:

http://unicode.org/Public/security/7.0.0/confusablesSummary.txt

The number of identified confusables increased from 6,156 items to 6,673, about an 8% gain. The most important characters to review are those that are confusable with high-use scripts. We ask reviewers to pay particular attention to characters confusable with characters from high-use scripts. http://unicode.org/Public/security/7.0.0/xidmodifications.txt

There are very few new allowed characters from 7.0; most are marked as restricted. We ask reviewers to confirm that none of the restricted characters are in high-frequency modern use. These files can be downloaded from http://unicode.org/Public/security/7.0.0 and diffed against the corresponding files in http://unicode.org/Public/security/6.3.0

The comment period ends July 28, 2014.