Re: [idn] Name entry

[tinwee@pobox.org.sg]

I agree with this view, and this is particularly so for CJK languages.

It is typical for namecards in the CJK world to have,
on the one side (international one) ASCII names
with our CJK names transliterated into ASCII,

and on the other side (localised one), Chinese/Japanese/Korean 
glyphs.

To the CJK speaker, we advertise the localised version,
and to an international recipient whom we wish to contact
or get contacted, we advertise the internationalised ASCII side.

Either way, it gets to the owner of the namecard in whatever
language we so choose to communicate in.

So also with the issue of multilingual domain names.

bestrgds

Tin Wee



C C Magnus Gustavsson wrote:
> 
> I can't see that there is any need to be able to enter every domain on
> every terminal. If I want a domain just for a website with i e Swedish
> text only, there is no reason for it to have an ASCII only equivalent.
> Everyone who has an interest in reaching it will be able to type it.
> If I address an international audience I choose to use an ASCII
> domain. Or an ASCII as well as a local. Perhaps I want one German, one
> Swedish and one English/International (ASCII).
> 
> The same goes for e-mail. If I don't speak English I have no need for
> an ASCII only e-mail address. If I want to be reachable from the whole
> world or publish my address internationally, I choose to have one
> local and one international address for my mailbox. And so on.
> 
> It's everyone own responsibility to see to that they are reachable,
> not ours to force them to be. We should give people choices, not
> demands. The question of what ASCII domain correspond to the local one
> is best answered locally. People will solve these problems themselves
> in their own ways. We don't need to and we should not do it for them.
> 
> /Magnus