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. :-)

For full-name DNS, White House may need to register at least
three records:
    "America"."USA"
    "United States"."USA"
    "USA"."USA"
If they forget to register "United States of America"."USA",
some other one may register it validly. This may imply that
every IDN customer must know and register all combinations
of the domain name he wants to register.

Besides, users must know
    "America"."America",
    "United States"."United States"
and so on that not ending with "USA" are invalid as
full-name DNS.

WARNING: This analogy can not reflect all problems
of Han characters (CJK+SC+TC). Analogize further
with caution. Hope I do not confuse you in an
unexpected way.

Sincerely,

Chun-Hsin Wu