Re: [idn] Reordering evaluation result by existing Japanese JP domain names

["Adam M. Costello" <idn.amc+0@nicemice.net.RemoveThisWord>]

Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org> wrote:

> Your table are great, and they show that the reordering for Japanese
> names will shorten typical Japanese ACE names by only a tiny fraction.

20% is a tiny fraction?  (For all-kanji labels, except the short ones,
where compression doesn't matter anyway.)

It looks to me like the gain tends to be too small to care much about
for small scripts (around 10%), but is significant for large scripts
(20% for Han and maybe 30% for Hangul).  Given that Chinese is spoken by
about 1/5 of the world's population, I don't think it would be ludicrous
to include functionality that mostly benefits the large scripts.  (I'm
not saying I favor it, but I don't think it would be ludicrous.)  Does
the CJK community think it would be worth the extra complexity?  If they
don't, then the rest of us can forget about it.  If they do, then we
have something to think about.

AMC