Re: [URN] Re: URL internationalization!

Masataka Ohta wrote:
> 
> > > 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.

I was trying to decipher my airline ticket the other day. The first
problem is that NO ONE can pronounce anyone's name. Living in the US
with a name like Jan makes this a hot button for me.

> > 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.

Show me the way.

> Each language already has its own denotation system in basic 26
> Latin alphabets, most, if not all, of them are unrelated to IPA.

Spec'd by whom?

> 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.

Font management with ISO 2022 is intractable! 

> UTF8 is not a proper charset at all. Look at RFC 1815 on how
> to construct proper charsets from ISO 10646.

Of course utf8 is not a charset. It is an encoding of ISO 10646.

YON