Re: [idn] An ignorant question about TC<-> SC

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

[JS: snip header again]

At 12:50 01/10/28 +0800, xiang deng wrote:

>On Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:41 PM, James Seng/Personal wrote:
>
> > > > Such mixed TC/SC is possible but not useful in practice. It is
> > neither
> > > > "TC" or "SC" and using it is fairly complex to use. Perhaps some
> > > > statistic of how many such TC/SC mixed label been registered in
> > practice
> > > > will be useful.
> > >
> > > No, in HK and MO and mainland of china, many people use Mixed
TC/SC.
> > > This is fact we can not avoid.
> >
> > Yes, TC & SC are used in some place. Many text also have mixed
TC/SC.
> >
> > But I am saying mixing "TC" and "SC" in one single label is uncommon
> > simply because it is difficult to type. You need to switch from TC
IME
> > to SC IME repeatively.
>
>No, I do can type TC AND SC in a very usual IME without swich.

Can you give an example? What is the IME you are using? What is
the name you are using?


>And, we can not regulate the register behavior,  whether or not mixing
"TC"
>and "SC" is in one single label depend on customers.

I think it is possible to make some restrictions on registrations:

If a user registers a TC-only and an SC-only name for the same thing,
others are forbidden to register mixtures.

This is in my eyes the most reasonable approach to the TC/SC problem,
because:

- It avoids large numbers of registrations for domain owners
   (they can still register as many variants as they think end
    users will actually use, which is something they can influence
    by what forms they publish)
- It avoids DNS server load increases
- It allows to deal with 1-many cases much easier than proposals
   that have to do actual mapping.

> > Do you have any statistic on how many mixed TC/SC registration have
been
> > done so far?
>
>If there just has 1% or 0.1% , do you mean we can ignore it?

It could be that we can ignore it, or that we can look for
lightweight solutions.


>You mean the problem is so tiny that we can ignore it,

It may be that the solutions available are so complicated and
imperfect that we better decide to ignore the problem, even
if we think it's not tiny.


Regards,   Martin.