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Re: [idn] opting out of SC/TC equivalence



david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk wrote:

>So, use of alphabetic case folding does not imply anything about whether
>TC and SC should be folded; that's a separate decision. There's a
>"slippery slope" argument here: if TC/SC are folded, why not Latin <->
>Cyrillic transliteration (used for Serbo-Croatian or in Azerbaijan, for
>example), or any of the other cases where a language can be written in
>more than one script? I see that later in your post you suggest Kanji/SC
>and other foldings.

You have read this correctly.  It is not a "slippery slope" argument,
it is what we can do to finalize IDN without any additional search 
engine complication. Here is a graphic view:

Application  >	IDNA  use [nameprep]  
		do extended case folding >   tag-ACE  > DNS

Liana