Re: [idn] Why IDNA breaks copy-and-paste

[liana Ye <liana.ydisg@juno.com>]

Hello, Markus:

Thanks for your input into the discussion.  Although
I  myself not an expert in termcap, your experience
in making " xterm preserves as much of the original UCS
plaintext " is  what I expected to hear from someone.  

This is a part of my reasoning to treat Latin script at the 
same lavel with other scripts, not make it a special 
case to squeeze it into DNS. 

Afterall, language issues should be handled by GUI
applicantions.

Thanks again.

Liana 

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:12:53 +0000 Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
writes:
> We try to make sure that xterm preserves as much of the original UCS
> plaintext that was sent to it as feasible for the purpose of 
cut&paste.
> This is not achieved with high perfection yet in the current  version,
> for example xterm currently still converts tabs into spaces and  drops
> combining characters if there are more than two per base character. 
> It  also drops most control characters, in particular it currently does

> not preserve SGR. This is supposed to improve in the future, but 
> cut&paste  will always remain a compromise hack in terminal emulator 
> applications. In particular, do not expect cut&paste to work in any 
> satisfactory  way  for bidi scripts in the foreseeable, but they are a 
> hopeless can of  worms anyway for terminal emulators and probabaly 
> should better only  be used with GUI applications in general.
> 
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
> 
> Markus
>