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Re: Dual names, IDN and ASCII, in e-mail addresses?

2003-09-26 08:00:13

Jacob,


In order to see such addresses in their "native" form, when they are encoded
using IDN, people will need email (or other) software that understands IDN.
Hence, they will be using software that is "internationalized" in the
necessary manner.

JP> I am not so sure. When I tried to view a web page in Greek
JP> two months ago, a page which was using the Greek version of
JP> ISO 8859, one web browser I used at one time said that I
JP> had to install the greek alphabet or else not see the page
JP> at all. (Another web browser showed the page, replacing
JP> characters it did not support by "?").

Your examples seem to support my point.


JP> And people still need to be able to have business cards
JP> printed on paper containing their e-mail address.

So?  How does this call for modifying MIME?


But this has nothing to do with email. It has to do with software support for
typing more characters than are supported on my keyboard.

JP> Do you mean that everyone all over the world has to learn
JP> how to type Japanese or Chinese characters on their keyboards?

Folks who wish to generate those characters do need to learn how to type them,
yes.

But, again, this has nothing to do with MIME.

d/
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