Re: [idn] Requirements I-D

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 12:08 15.05.2000 -0700, A. Vine wrote:
>RJ Atkinson wrote:
> >
> > - Case-folding needs to be locale-independent because there is no way to
> >    communicate "locale" as part of DNS queries.  Alphabetic characters 
> should
> >    have a well-defined case folding.  Ideogrammatic characters might 
> not have
> >    any case folding, of course.
> >
>While I understand your desire to make case-folding locale-independent, I
>recommend you consider a couple of issues. 1. Case-folding in a
>real-world-language usage sense is _not_ locale independent, which means 
>that 2.
>no matter what standard chart of case folding you come up, _including_ the
>existing ASCII case-folding, you will leave several languages/locales with
>incorrect folding.  In addition to potentially causing problems and 
>confusion in
>the domain naming world, it will also serve to annoy people, committees, and
>national standards bodies from various parts of the world.

agreed that someone will be irritated. perhaps even a majority of the world.
but if the choice is between having most of the world irritated and nobody 
in the world having a working IDN system, I'll vote for the working system.

                      Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
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