Re: Further thoughts on preferred printable representations...

--On Monday, 30 June, 2003 11:24 +0200 Arnt Gulbrandsen 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> "Should do" is one thing, "will do" quite another.
>
> Both in my native Norway and now in Germany, I've seen a lot
> of two-sided business cards: One side in Norwegian/German, the
> other in English and devoid of æøåäëöß.
>
> This might not be something people should do. But since a lot
> of people do print their names both properly and in ASCII, it
> sounds reasonable to assume that they will do the same for
> their email addresses.

You may want to distinguish between "properly and in ASCII" from 
"properly and appropriately in the country in which you are 
using the card" -- both occur, and they aren't always the same. 
I've seen a fair number of "German-Chinese" and 
"French-Japanese" cards, different cards used by the same person 
in Japan and China, etc.   For business cards, you presumably 
always know where you come from (or where your organization 
does) and where you are, which gives only two (or sometimes 
three) cases.  For anything handled on the Internet, the issue 
rapidly turns into a N-way problem.

This issue was, fwiw, extensively discussed on the IDN WG list 
back when there was still an effort to get a "requirements" 
document together.

     john