Re: [idn] Report from the ACE design team

[Maurizio Codogno <mau@beatles.cselt.it>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:32:16AM +0900, Makoto Ishisone wrote:

> However, for languages with large number of characters (such as CJK),
> the algorithm tends to work poorly.  In the worst case DUDE encodes
> one Unicode character (in the Basic Multilingual Plane) as 4-octet
> sequence.  This happens frequently for CJK Han or Hangul names because
> the characters in these scripts are scattered in the Unicode code
> point space.

This is a factual statement, of course.


> The following points are my main concern:
> 
> 1) Is 14-15 character is enough?
>    At least for Japanese domain names, name of a company or an
>    organization is sometimes quite long.

When I was younger, some Japanese friend explained me that usually a single
ideogram is the equivalent of a word in a Latin language. Now you seem to
imply something different. Could you please give some example of a name of
a Japanese organization with a long string of characters? (actually the
number of characters in Japanese and a rough translation will suffice,
since I cannot read Japanese).


> 2) Potential migration problem
>    Many NICs has already begun registering internationalized domain
>    names using RACE as the ACE.  

That's a problem of those NICs, and of the people who registered with RACE
before it was sanctioned as a standard... 

ciao, .mau.