Re: what is the real problem?

At 21:57 12/11/03, John Cowan wrote:
>This problem is a genuine one, but I don't know that it's reasonable to
>expect a solution to it.  It is not possible to snail-mail me if you can't
>write Latin letters, for example; but the reverse is not true, because
>postal systems have agreed to accept mail addressed in Latin letters.

I am afraid you forget that an assistant can write it for you. Please refer 
to the protocol/users layers I quoted. This is not because the user cannot 
_type_ the cases used by the protocol layer that he cannot use the 
protocol. A very common solution is a menu where the user clicks on entries 
in his scripting and they are transcoded in the protocol's appropriate way. 
Menu servers are a very old solution. But I also documented that an OPES 
data base can carry the job. Typing a mailbox name in Chinese scripting 
does not prevent this mailbox to be translated into an ascii name.

A very simple and old solution is an Host.txt like solution. Please 
consider a current very common case. In some countries sites are removed 
the name servers that people continue to access in using Host.txt.
jfc