Re: [idn] case preservation

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 17:12 01/10/10 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
>No. Regimate registrants could own the domains and use them publicly.
>Cyrillic 'H'  ( cyrillic upper EN) is read differenly from Latin 'H'.
>Cyrillic 'HOME' has nothing to do with English "HOME".

There is indeed a non-zero (but very, very small) probability
for such cases. But if domain names are written in lower case
the way they mostly have been up to now, a word in a language
written in Cyrillic looking the same as a word in a language
written in Latin would be about as rare as a four-leaf clover.

>Most Russians would interpret them as Cyrillic ones, while non-Russian 
>would not.

Most people will interpret them in context, if necessary.
Machines are very bad at using context, but people
are very good.


Regards,    Martin.