Re: [idn] UTC feedback

[Andrea Vine <avine@eng.sun.com>]

This is a problem.  If someone in an English-speaking company registers their
cafe as "thecafe.com" and someone in France registers their Tea Café as
"thécafé.com", and a user types in THECAFE.COM, well...but I can't believe that
a French user would do this on a regular basis.  Then again, I'm not a French
user, and I don't know what the usual train of thought is when handling accented
characters.

Any French folks on this list who can talk about this situation? 

Keith Moore wrote:
> 
> > In the case of (b) for example, French users may be accustomed to either
> > having accents or not in uppercase. Yet in other languages, the
> > distinction between accented letters must be maintained -- folding
> > them would be like folding all vowels to E in all English words.
> > An acceptable work-around is to register both the name with all
> > accents and the name with none.
> 
> wow.  everything else from the UTC sounded entirely sound to me ..
> perhaps not the absolute perfect answer, but close.
> 
> but this notion of an acceptable work-around seems like a stretch.
> 
> seems like we really want to avoid the case where a name with accents
> and the same name without accents can diverge (in languages where they
> really are accents and not completely different letters) and eventually
> be assigned to different parties, or one gets updated without the other,
> etc.
> 
> Keith