Re: [idn] summary of reordering discussion

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 2:59 PM +0900 11/9/01, Soobok Lee wrote:
>IS there No need to compare and copy and transscript the "gibberish" ?
>Think about ergonomics around dealing with the gibberish by ordinary users,
>not by you engineers.

This is probably the basis of the disagreement that most people have 
with reordering.

In fact, there is no need for humans to compare or copy (by hand) or 
transcribe ACEs except in very rare cases, such as administrative 
debugging. And even in those cases, the types of names that you say 
will be typical in the Asian scripts that would be optimized are 
already very long.

Ordinary users will never be expected to type in ACE names. When an 
application leaks ACE names, it will always be a visual 
representation, not something that someone would have to type in by 
hand.

So, to answer your question: no, there is no such need.

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