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Re: [I18n-discuss] Mappings for IDNA2008 ?

"Patrik Fältström " <paf@frobbit.se> Sat, 09 February 2019 07:42 UTC

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To: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [I18n-discuss] Mappings for IDNA2008 ?
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On 8 Feb 2019, at 23:58, John R Levine wrote:

> Here's a suggestion that should make everyone unhappy.

No, it makes me happy!

> If you're in an environment with a user and a locale, like a phone app
> or a web browser, use a local mapping to get U-labels and send them
> along.  Or I suppose if that's too much javascript, send the locale
> along with the unmapped text to the server with the mapping tables which
> maps to U-labels.

Exactly!

> If you're deep inside a server getting strings out of web pages or
> files and it's not mapped, too late.

Bingo!

A string is mapped "whenever it enters the system". "Within the system" it should be mapped already and must be either A-LABEL or U-LABEL.

   Patrik

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