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

["Chun-Hsin Wu" <wuch@gate.sinica.edu.tw>]

> >2. In cases of "Taiwan" and "Taipei", the TC and SC characters for the
> >  first character "Tai", U53F0 and U81FA, are both widely and
> >  interchangeably used in Taiwan. You can find examples of mixed uses
> >  in Chinese Web sites, such as TAIpei City Government, National
> >  TAIwan University, TAIwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
> >  (TSMC), and so on. If we support top-level IDNs in the future, every
> >  domain and host below IDN.tw will have AT LEAST two records,
> >  one in  IDN.U53F0-wan and the other in IDN.U81FA-wan.
> 
> This is a very specific case (there are others like this, but
> not that many). For companies/organizations, they should just
> register both variants. For the top-level domain, there should
> be only one. It would probably be U53F0-wan. Please note that
> this is very similar to two-letter combinations for countries
> in ASCII; to a certain extent, people just have to learn them,
> e.g. that it's 'jp' and not 'ja' for Japan,...

According to your suggestion, we should also have only one
form for the second Chinese character of China, and you might
prefer U56FD (for SC) rather than U570B (for TC). I doubt
how many Chinese can accept your suggestion. *_*

I don't think the case is similar to two-letter combinations for
countries. It's more similar to that we should have only one
word for America, United States, and USA. For example,
people have to learn it is 'USA', and you can not use
neither 'United States' nor 'America' as the TLD. I also doubt
how many Americans can agree with this idea. :-)

Regards,

Chun-Hsin Wu