Re: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)

["Mark Davis" <[e-mail]>]

I wouldn't have thought so either, but at least some people questioned the need
for non-Latin characters, and went so far as to exclude them from a proposed
problem statement:

> ... There is a growing need to use additional
> characters, specifically Latin characters with diacriticals and non-Latin
> characters, in email addresses to better serve the needs of the
> multi-national Internet community...

Mark
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Subject: Re: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)


>
> it appears to me that this thread is not very different from the idn
> considerations on usage of idn in the world. So what is really new in this
> discussion?
>
> Marc.
>
> -- Tuesday, October 28, 2003 07:10:59 -0800 Mark Davis
> <[e-mail]> wrote/a ecrit:
>
> >> > (I agree that it's currently nearly impossible to use computers if one
> >> > isn't familiar with the Latin script, of course.)
> >>
> >> Which probably makes the rest of this discussion academic, unless we're
> >> going to undertake solving *that* problem for Microsoft and the various
> >> UNIX/Linux vendors...
> >
> > It is currently impossible to use the Internet without knowing the Latin
> > script. However, the goal of most well-designed client software and
> > operating systems is to permit the user to work entirely within their
> > native language, with a fully localized system. This is reaching to India
> > and other countries; Microsoft has introduced fully localized versions of
> > Indic Windows just recently, and Linux vendors are hard at work to
> > produce fully localized versions of their software.
> >
> > Email and Web addresses are the big remaining holdouts for most people.
> > People should not be forced to use a script that they are unfamiliar
> > with, just to use email addresses and sites in their own countries. Even
> > if they are familiar with the Latin script, it is very often a very bad
> > match for their languages, making it very difficult to figure out how
> > native words would be spelled in it.
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
>
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