On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Curt Sampson wrote:
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> On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Benjamin Kowarsch wrote:
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> > I wonder how well this is going to work for Japanese IDNs, given
> > multiple kanji readings ...
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25698.html
>
> I don't see how readings would make any kind of difference, other than
> the usual problems that can be expected with any system.* This just
> encodes the unicode representation of the kanji, and leaves it at that.
> Readings (in the sense of yomi) never come into it.
>
> * There are, of course, multiple ways of representing the same word,
> which might cause confusion. For example, does toshiba.co.jp also get
> to have 東芝.co.jp? How about とうしば.co.jp? Not to mention
> トウシバ.co.jp and the half-width version of it.
No wonder VeriSign's in favour of it, then - it allows them to sell
each representation as a separate domain name.
Received on Tue Jun 18 21:05:56 2002