Re: Just send UTF-8 with nameprep (was: RE: [idn]Reality Check)

["Bruce Thomson" <bthomson@fm-net.ne.jp>]

Using hyphen in Japanese would be a bit confusing, as a different
dash is used to indicate long vowels.

----- Original Message -----
From: <liana.ydisg@juno.com>
To: <dan@enic.cc>
Cc: <roozbeh@sharif.edu>; <duerst@w3.org>; <klensin@jck.com>;
<Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Just send UTF-8 with nameprep (was: RE: [idn]Reality Check)


> This use of  hyphen is permitted in [nameprep], and is often
> used by Chinese from Taiwan.  As far as I know, it is occasionally
> needed for Korean, and I think it should be used to replace " ' "
> of Pinyin standard for IDN names.
>
> Liana
>
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:48:58 -0700 Dan Ebert <dan@enic.cc> writes:
> >
> > Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Martin Duerst wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't want to disagree with your conclusion, but I'm not
> > > > sure about the premise (that we need the original spelling),
> > > > so I didn't get into the details of what would follow.
> > >
> > > We may need original spelling, for example if we decide that we
> > need to
> > > stop Arabic letters from joining, by using a ZWNJ between them
> > (since a
> > > space is not available). Multiword Arabic domain names will be
> > unreadable
> > > if the words join. But since ZNWJ is stripped at nameprep, we will
> > > sometimes need to get to the original. You get the idea.
> > >
> > > roozbeh
> >
> > It is possible to prevent Arabic letters from joining by separating
> > words by hyphens.  While I don't think this isn't something which
> > should
> > be incoporated into any kind of proposal, it may be a useful
> > convention
> > for the registration of Arabic names. I am not an Arabic speaker so
> > I
> > don't know how acceptable this would be, but it is a possible
> > solution.
> >
> > --
> > Dan Ebert      <dan@enic.cc>       eNIC Corporation
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
>