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Re: [idn] case preservation
--On 01-10-09 06.51 +0000 "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> wrote:
> If you're not going to do a thorough job of nameprep, then you shouldn't
> be trying to deceive users into believing that IDNs can be safely typed
> from textual printouts.
I have definitly never said that. The contrary.
I have said that nameprep _only_ follow the technical note which Unicode
Consortium have created, because systems which handle Unicode will also use
the same mechanism, which means that data in Unicode _might_ be normalized
inside a unicode system without the knowledge of the user.
Note the might.
paf