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Re: [I18nrp] Conservatism principle doesn't go far enough

Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> Sun, 03 February 2019 07:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [I18nrp] Conservatism principle doesn't go far enough
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On 2/2/2019 8:01 PM, Larry Masinter wrote:
> But I think this is counter-productive and wrong. If you're showing someone
> a URL which is not in normal form, normalization will lose this critical
> information. Better to just display the punicode for any unnormalized
> domains.

I'm missing something here. What "critical" information (other than the 
normalization state) is it that gets lost?

There are some scripts where ordinary text is most likely not normalized 
and where it's also not necessarily trivial for users to enter 
normalized text. Should all of those URLs get displayed as punycode?

A./

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