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Re: [idn] IDNs do not use ASCII



On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:37:39AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 11, "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> wrote:
> 
>  >That's ridiculous. The user wants to see lowercase pi. He might tolerate
>  >uppercase pi, but he will kick and scream if he sees bq--blah.
>
> Did you do some kind of usability survey among users or are you just
> speculating?

Thats quite obvious anyway, but if ACE is gonna happen, then I really hope
that the users won't see bq-blah in the URL-line. 

That would be a sure way to kill IDN before it goes popular.
 
/magnus

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