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Re: [idn] IDNs do not use ASCII



1. The world has to tolerate English only DNS long enough. 
2. For IDN, if a user kick and scream when he sees bq--blah
 then he can buy an application which only shows BQ--BLAH.

Liana

On 11 Aug 2001 00:14:31 -0000 "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> writes:
> Adam M. Costello writes:
> > Now <lowercase-pi> and <uppercase-pi> and bq--blah and BQ--BLAH 
> etc.
> > are all equivalent.
> 
> 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.
> 
> This is typical of your arguments: you show us the road to failure, 
> you
> define failure as being equivalent to success, and you claim 
> success.
> Sorry, Adam, but that isn't what the users want to see.
> 
> ---Dan
>