Sigh. I used "Greek" in an analogy because I was hoping that some of the
Latin-only folks out there would at least recognize the name of one other
script. But how comforable would you really be, if يُُ وِرِ فُرسِد تُ رَِد َن
ِنتِرِلي دِففِرِنت سكرِپت، سِمپلي تُ ُندِرستَند ِمَِل َددرِسسِس، َند َ سكرِپت
تهَت كُُلد ُنلي پَرتَِللي رِفلِكت تهِ رَِل سپِللِنگ ُف يُُر وُردس?
Mark
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Subject: Re: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:39:32PM -0800,
Mark Davis <mark(_dot_)davis(_at_)jtcsv(_dot_)com> wrote
a message of 76 lines which said:
We should remember that for a great many people in the world, Latin letters
are
quite unnatural; it'd be a bit like if we had to use Greek letters in all
email
addresses.
It would be a bit like if we had to use Greek letters in mathematics
:-)