Re: a few short notes

On 1-feb-04, at 23:35, Martin Duerst wrote:

> The question now is
> whether there are more Chinese looking at Chinese addresses, or
> more others like you. Counting actual individual 'views', it's
> very clear that 99% or so of viewings of Chinese addresses are
> by Chinese, and only the remainder by guys like you (and me :-).

> So what's better, overall, to design the protocol so that Chinese
> can read Chinese directly (and Japanese can read Japanese directly,
> and so on), and you may have to use a somewhat special setup if
> you happen to come across a Chinese address, or the other way round?
> The conclusion seems to be rather obvious.

The only conclusion that's obvious is that email is a global system so 
requiring capabilities we can't reasonably expect to be available 
globally (ie, the ability to manipulate non-latin characters) is not an 
option.