Re: URL internationalization!

Martin;

> > And, ISO 10646 can't handle multiple scripts of Hanzi and Kanji.
> 
> This issue has been mentionned before. Of course, ISO 10646
> can handle CJK(V) ideographs

What we, Japanese, daily use is not "CJK(V) ideograph" script
but Kanji-Kana-majiri script.

As ISO 2022 based encoding already supports Kanji-Kana-majiri
script in fully internationalized way but ISO 10646 can't, there
is no further discussion possible that ISO 10646 is
internationalized.

> URLs are identifiers,

Sure. So, we need nothing more than ASCII.

> Fortunately, this is less than 1% of the cases that
> would be created if each of the typographic traditions
> had separate codepoints.

In too many cases, the error rate of 1% is unacceptable.

> Having an artificial distinction between Chinese (which comes
> in two variants, traditional and simplified), Japanese,
> Korean, and Vietnamese CJKV ideographs in identifiers such
> as URLs would lead to a multiplication of the problems
> that Masataka rightfully hinted at in the case of Latin
> and Greek A/Alpha.

What we, Japanese, daily use is not "CJK(V) ideograph" script
but Kanji-Kana-majiri script.

Just remove artificial "CJK(V) ideograph" and no artificial
distinction necessary.

BTW, JIS X 0208 itself already contains too many similar
characters that exact match of code points is useless for real
world search.

						Masataka Ohta