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Re: [idn] case folding



On Jun 23, James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg> wrote:

 >> Plus I wonder how it will all play out in the marketplace.  Given
 >> that "much" of the world's population will not be able to enter
 >> non-ASCII (or non-Latin-1) on their keyboards, how much success will
 >> a website enjoy in the world market when it names itself in a complex
 >> (or even non-ASCII) script?  (Of course it's another matter for
 >> websites designed only for local consumption, e.g. in Taiwan.)
 >While it is kind of out of topic, the question to ask is if the website
 >is *already* in Arabic or Chinese, why do they still need an English URL?
Maybe because they have seen the domain in their log because some host
is probing their system for security vulnerabilities?
How could them connect to the web site of the domain and check what's
it about? Or ask with whois for the admin-c to report the probes?

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ciao,
Marco