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

["James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>]

Iiana,

I am not comment on other parts but your presumation that TC/SC can be
done by radical equivalence simplification is unfortunately misplaced.
No doubts there are *some* cases whereby TC->SC can be done by changing
radicals, it is not rule of the thumb.

Once again, you may want to read the problems with TC-SC paper by Jack
Halpern at http://www.basistech.com/articles/C2C.html first on basic
difficulties of TC/SC in general.
http://playground.i-dns.net/one/onec_sum.htm (also by Jack) describes
the more specific difficulties of doing TC-SC in Domain Names.

-James Seng

> As to TC/SC, I think the problem can be divided into two
> levels. One level is the mechanical, one-to-one.  They are
> the majority and bothering  the readers.  The minority as many
> have said those n-to-1problem, normally one of them is
> the major one, and the other are minor ones.  There are
> always exceptions!!!  So to benefit the majority, the way to deal
> with it is to come up with an arbitary one-to-one, and let Chinese
> to fight which one is the major one!   The same principle is
> applied to decomposition of a Hanja and Kanji.  When there
> is a base, the rest will follow , the application will have
> something to conform to.