Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> How does
>[snip]
> look to you? (This is not an example crafted to be a pain.)

Thanks for a great example!!

It appears to me as:
 "g" <center-dot> "ther.gr" <center-dot> "l@h" <center-dot> "nerbr"
 <Han character for "moor" (as in a boat)> ".de".

Now, if I set my environment so that I'm interpreting things in Latin-1,
then I see the German string which is Anglicized as:
 [email protected]

Of course, if my environment had been UTF-8 instead of Japanese, it
would have been rendered correctly without change.  But, I still would
have had to change my Japanese input environment to enter that string.  I
would have had to know how to enter umlauts and ess-tset.

If I was a native Japanese, I would have learned the Latin alphabet
without any diacriticals.  I would know how to write my name in the Latin
alphabet, albeit with numerous spelling variances; "Fujishima",
"Huzisima", "Fujisima", "Fuzishima", etc. are all the same name.  Umlauts
(and especially ess-tset) are a different matter.


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