Re: Combining characters (was: Re: [idn] hostname historyhell)

[DougEwell2@cs.com]

In a message dated 2001-11-26 0:31:52 Pacific Standard Time, 
liana.ydisg@juno.com writes:

> Have you thought about " Mixed language URLs "
> with language tags, for example:
>
> www.zh-china/mo-mogolia/zh-county/mybusiness.com
>
> shall be able to work?

I thought one of the fundamental characteristics of domain names, host names, 
URLs, etc. is that they were identifiers, not true names, and hence they were 
not intended to be language-tagged.

Just as an example, two popular search engines are teoma.com and 
altavista.com.  What language is "Teoma"?  Is "Alta Vista" supposed to be 
Spanish or Italian?  Should we care?

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California