Re: [idn] nameprep failures

[Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se>]

Adam M. Costello wrote:


>> If I see WWW.AOL.COM, where the A is actually a capital Alpha, then
>> I'm sure I'll type it incorrectly.  So why doesn't nameprep prohibit
>> Alpha?
>
>[Nitpick:  I wouldn't say you typed it incorrectly, I'd say you read it
>incorrectly, then typed exactly what you intended to type.]

Actually the A used in English has the same origin as the Greek Alpha.
So you could very well see them as the same letter. The difference is
that when using Greek you use a different glyph for the lower case
form. I am sure there are many names in Greek or using Cyrillic letters
that will use only glyphs that are exactely the same as in "Latin" making
it impossible to from a printed paper identify what alphabet they belong
to.

So there is sure to be problems unless matching glyphs are matched
as equivalent.

   Dan