Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

but it is NOT ok, if someone in Japan who understands Japanese
cannot write down an email address or send email to another
Japanese person who can understand Japanese.
This needs to happen SOON.

And it would be a big tragedy if 1 billion Chinese persons
cannot write down their email addresses in Chinese and
communicate that to the other 1 billion minus one Chinese
persons using the Internet because we are worried that
someone in Greece can't write down an email with
Japanese characters, or because we are still hoping that
all of them will master English first. We have gone through
these arguments before in the IDN mailing list in case
IMAA mailing list folks are new to these issues.

So we should move on, and focus on going forward
as Martin and others point out.

bestrgds
tin wee

Martin Duerst wrote:

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> At 00:00 03/02/28 +0000, Claus Faerber wrote:
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>> So it's ok if someone in Greece can't write down the email address of a
>> friend in Japan on paper?
>
>
> It's okay that someone in Greece can't write down an email with
> Japanese characters. It's okay that somebody in Greece doesn't
> understand Japanese. Would be nice if we could change that,
> but that won't happen soon.
>
>
>> Although most people will continue to have ASCII-only addresses in
>> addition to their non-ASCII addresses, they won't switch the From line
>> every time they mail foreign people.
>
>
> They won't want to do that. Tools will do that for them, pretty easily.
>
> Regards,    Martin.
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