Re: [idn] IDNs in email message bodies

["James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>]

If you remove yourself from the concept of "text" but think of it as a
"presentation" layer issues, then you will realise both of you are
speaking of the same thing. :-)

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: "idn working group" <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [idn] IDNs in email message bodies


> William Tan <william.tan@i-dns.net> wrote:
>
> > However, I agree that ACE should be 'converted' for display, and
> > strictly for display only.  This is analogous from mail clients
> > detecting mail / url addresses and hyperlinking it.
>
> I disagree.  I don't think it is analogous.  Hyperlinking the text may
> add underlines or color, but it does not change the text itself.
>
> The recipient, looking at the message body, should ideally see the
> same thing the sender saw when composing the message body.  If the
> message body contains Chinese characters XXX.cn, then that's what
> should be displayed.  But if the message body contains ASCII
characters
> bq--xxx.cn, then that's what should be displayed, because that's what
> the sender saw and intended for the recipient to see.
>
> AMC
>