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Re: [idn] case folding
At 09:56 AM 5/31/00 -0400, Leslie Daigle wrote:
<snip>
>However, if we say that there is no case folding/canonicalization
>(except perhaps for US-ASCII, for backwards compatibility), then
>
> LeChatÉmerveillant.com and
> lechatémerveillant.com
>
>are distinct, registrable strings.
Even more problematical:
LeChatÉmerveillant.com (Canadian French rendition) and
LeChatEmerveillant.com (French "national" rendition - no accents on
capital letters) and
lechatémerveillant.com (both Canadian French and French "national"
rendition - the same accents on lower case letters)
The problem is, how to implement "downsizing" or "case insensitivity" in
these kinds of colliding situations, where the upper case of a character
(which a user might "naturally" type) has no accent, but the lower case of
the same character *does* have an accent?
Only one small part of the can of worms we have in our hands.
With apologies to Marc Blanchet if I am in error about Canadian French in
my example <smile>.
Bill Semich
.NU Domain