Re: Fwd: Eeek - .NU Domains using $B%h(J , $B%H(J , $B%J(J , $B%o(J, $B%`(J - And More

[James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Martin J. Duerst wrote:
> James - What do you mean with 'character set' in this context?
> As we are working on requirements, and don't want to discuss
> too much about encoding yet, it's difficult for me to understand.

Sorry. Wrong term :-) I mean I would like to see a system whereby you can
intermix languages and script, provided it can be represented somehow.

I am working on Arabic domain names right now. Look great! but it just
strike me how werid it will be to see english mix into it...(Arab script
writes from right to left). 

My answer to your questions below is "why not"? Why not designed a system
that *can* handle different language script within the same label but if
people prefer to use otherwise, they can too.

-James Seng

> - Is it necessary to be able to mix Thai letters and Hiragana
>   in a single label?
>
> - Is it necessary to be able to mix Cyrillic and Arabic characters
>   in a single label?
> 
> - Is it necessary to be able to mix Chinese Hanzi and Hebrew
>   in a single label?
> 
> - Is it necessary to be able to mix Korean Hangul and Egyptian
>   hieroglyphs in a single label? (once the later are defined)
> 
> What does everybody think?
> 
> 
> Regards,   Martin.
> 
> 
> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium
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