Re: [URN] Re: URL internationalization!

Alain;

> [Alain

Stop using to insist on ISO-8859-1 for fully Internationalized
communication. Use ASCII only.

> >> Turkish is probably the worst case btw. Turkish uses the latin script
> but...
> 
> [Masataka Ohta] :
> >These days, there are annoying live demonstrations in ietf ML that
> >Turkish is just fine with ASCII. Have you done something?
> 
> [Alain
> No, I am not aware of this. But I know that the Turks would not agree.

All the people of IETF ML is aware that you are wrong.

> >> If they pronounce it they have it wrong all the time. On a speakerphone in
> >> an airport a Turk might not recognize his/her own name.
> 
> [Masataka Ohta] :
> >??? How can the speakerphone operator pronounce my name written in
> >Kanji?
> 
> [Alain] :
> The sub-thread (a perenthesis open by Jan, pronounced Yan) of this
> discussion, I believe, dealt with the use of the International Phonetic
> Alphabet for machine-readable passports or for airline tickets.

That's not even a subthread.

> But to come back to the sub-thread, with the IPA any human-pronounceable
> sound can be represented,

So with ASCII, or just a binary sequence of '0' and '1'.

The only difference is that, with ASCII, there already exists formal
notations transcribable by anyone and readable/writable/pronoucible
by those who know the language.

							Masataka Ohta