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

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

At 9:42 PM +0000 11/13/01, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>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.)

Yep. If you look at Yoneya-san's chart, you will see that the large 
majority of the names are 8 characters or less. In fact, since you 
want to narrow it to all-kanji names, the large majority are 4 
characters or less. So, a 20% length reduction means ACE strings that 
are about 2 characters shorter for typical all-Kanji Japanese names.

I truly don't believe that we will see end users typing in ACE names, 
but even if you do, is it really easier to type in h4xe90wsie3b than 
h4xe90wsie3b5a? This is worth the hair and incompleteness of the 
reordering draft?

>   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.

That's what the straw poll is about. The complexity comes at a high 
cost. For instance, the current draft  bases its frequency tables on 
the current VGRS testbed, which is unlikely to really reflect typical 
Asian names. Adopting that strategy will be based on a very myopic 
view of Asian names.

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