Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

Tan Tin Wee <[email protected]> schrieb/wrote:
> 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.

The interesting part is that the IDNA WG seems to have missed the
main advantage of their own IDNA design:
IDNAs have a Unicode version (e.g. for the 1 billion Chinese people who
understand Chinese characters) and an ASCII-only version (for the Greek
person who does not).

The IDNA spec says: ``ACE labels are unsuitable for display to users.''
But that is not true: They are perfectly suitable for display to users
who don't know the Unicode characters encoded within an ACE label.

Claus
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