Re: traditional/simplified (Re: [idn] wg milestones update)

["Edmon" <edmon@neteka.com>]

TC/SC and Brit/US (colour vs color) are neither a simplistic problem.
>From my experience of TC/SC usage in HK and Brit/US English in Canada, there
is a growing trend to mix the two.  Both are accepted and sometimes mixed.
Edmon

> Saying TC-SC is like "color" and "colour" is a naive view of the whole
> TC-SC problem.
>
> -James Seng
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edmon" <edmon@neteka.com>
> To: "Kenneth Whistler" <kenw@sybase.com>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>
> Cc: <kenw@sybase.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:28 AM
> Subject: Re: traditional/simplified (Re: [idn] wg milestones update)
>
>
> > > Incidentally, for those who cannot directly envision the issues for
> > > trying to match traditional and simplified Chinese domain names, a
> > > roughly comparable problem would be trying to match "traditional"
> > > British English spellings and lexical conventions with "simplified"
> > > American English spellings and lexical conventions, so that, for
> > > example:
> > >
> > >     www.theatre.com  and  www.theater.com
> > >
> > > would resolve to the same domain name, to avoid "confusions" among
> > > users who might be using the "traditional" forms or the "simplified"
> > > forms of the "same" name. But of course no such matching is
> attempted
> > > now for English-based domain names, let alone all
> Latin-character-based
> > > domain names
> >
> > I totally agree with this analogy as I have pointed it out a long time
> ago
> > at the Pittsburg IETF. (with a different word: colour vs color)
> > It is still best left to the policy makers of a registry (or domain
> admin of
> > any domain for that matter) to determine trad-simp mapping.
> >
> > Edmon
> >
> >