Re: [idn] case preservation

["Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
To: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>; "Dan Ebert" <dan@enic.cc>
Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [idn] case preservation


> 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.
> 
Now it may be rare as you said. 
But, LDH.com and LDH.RU are already saturated or
being saturated, while cyrillic ML.com are still 'fresh' 
and waiting for being populated with private companies
by the development of Russian market economy.


> >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.

The amount of first-time confusions in IDN deployment in Russia may be 
very different than that in China and Korea.
It may need some research how to teach IDN to Russians familiar with
LDH.ru type of domains.

Regards,

Soobok Lee

> 
> 
> Regards,    Martin.
>