Re: [idn] Dots, and a path to working IDNs

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

--On 01-05-28 21.18 +0000 "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> wrote:

> James Seng/Personal writes:
>> Incidently for those who cares, on a Chinese/Japanese IME, a dot can
>> either be U+3002 or U+002E depending if it is full/half width and in
>> Korean IME, a dot can either be U+FF9E or U+002E.
> 
> This is part of what I was referring to. Why aren't Keith and Patrik
> screaming that we need dotprep in thousands of programs? Don't they care
> about millions of confused users who have typed the wrong dot?

The issues with individual characters (especially the dot in Japanese and
Chinese input mechanisms) has been discussed extensively in the group which
have been talking about nameprep.

See the nameprep draft section 5.10.

  paf