At 18:53 29/10/03, Keith Moore wrote:
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I suspect it would much more useful if people tried to characterize
what they and their cohorts want, rather than trying to characterize what
some
other group wants.
This is exactly what I do. As a users (icannatlarge) a community (intlnet)
and a language (Eurolinc) organizations. The people this group says it to
want to hear from and never sent a questionnaire to.
So, I will say it again on behalf of my cohort.
When asked what they want, they are first ambarassed because people tend to
say they want things which are feasible. When explained what there was
(ascii) and what there is/could be and to suppose that everything is
possible there are three responses. I repeat, in my cohort:
- American speaking people feel IDNA is great (responses from CONs people
are more complex)
- international project managers respond like Tan Tin Wee : multilingual
- the users respond "what I do everywhere else". This has a name : vernacular.
If your cohort do not want to hear what my cohort wants, don't ask! If you
are not convinced or know better than me, you welcome to ask yourself. I
ran questionnaires, I had a web page quizz on on that. Now, I am not M$,
ICANN or Verisign to get thousand of responses. But I am reasonably
satisfied that this is a fair and accurate representation of the demand.
jfc
> This being said only Americans want/are satisfied with "internationalized"
> (sic) names (the artificial extension of the American character set with
> most of the American foreign scripting, within an ascii frame). No one
> really wants multilingual names (a totally internationalized (sic) frame
> supporting languages and therefore some language oriented rules - at least
> ni management and user support). The users need vernacular support,
that is
> to be able to freely do in the mail what they use to do elsewhere.
>
> I note that for non-American writers "international names" means names
that
> everyone from every nation will understand. It happens to be the ascii
> character set limited to the DNS used names (they were selected for that
> reason).
> jfc