Re: [URN] Re: URL internationalization!
Masataka Ohta <[email protected]>
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> > ASCII script is rich enough to denote French, Japanese, Thai,
> > Arabic, Hindi...
>
> This is just wrong!
Look at international airline tickets of people from France, Japan,
Thai, Arab and India and tell me what is wrong.
> Perhaps, if you used the ASCII hacking of the IPA, I could go along
> with that.
No, we don't.
We are not interested in transcribing pronounciation of various
language to the accuracy of IPA, which is sometimes excessive
and somtimes insufficient.
Each language already has its own denotation system in basic 26
Latin alphabets, most, if not all, of them are unrelated to IPA.
Multi-language support is doable with ASCII only and is orthogonal
to multi-script support.
> Besides, all you ASCII lovers should be exceptionally excited by
> Martin's proposal because ASCII is a subset of utf8 (RFC 2044)
No, not at all. ISO-2022-{JP, KR, CN, JP-2} are all supersets
of ASCII and better than utf8 in all aspects.
UTF8 is not a proper charset at all. Look at RFC 1815 on how
to construct proper charsets from ISO 10646.
Masataka Ohta