Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

>At 00:00 03/02/28 +0000, Claus Faerber wrote:
>
>>Someone who does not know the Greek language and can't type Greek
>>characters might actually prefer entering xn--mxa (which is Nameprep and
>>Punycode of a single alpha); it's even easier than using ISO 14755 for
>>longer name components.
>
>Somebody who doesn't know Greek probably doesn't care to type Greek
>at all. I guess we should design IMAs so that Greek IMAs work best
>for Greeks, and Japanese IMAs work best for Japanese, and so on.
>Designing IMAs so that Greek IMAs work best for Japanese and Japanese
>IMAs work best for Greeks doesn't make sense.
>
>Regards,    Martin.

Martin:

What about char sets that are not language specific, like 
mathematical symbols? The Unicode character database does provide 
many char sets that are not language specific -- look at symbol fonts 
and even dingbats for sake of argument.

Shouldn't Greeks and Japanese (as well as everyone else) have easy 
and equal access to those characters -- and to all others char sets 
in the Unicode database as well? Designing things on a language 
specific basis looks like a "no matter how many times you cut it, 
it's still too short" type of thing.

tedd
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