Re: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)

["Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>]

I'm curious: why do you think that everyone would be satisfied with Latin
characters only, and no non-Latin characters?

Mark
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From: "Mark Crispin" <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
To: "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu>
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Sent: Mon, 2003 Oct 27 11:10
Subject: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)


> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Keith Moore wrote:
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>  >> Thanks for taking a stab at a problem statement.  I'd like to drill down
>  >> on this just a bit.
>  >> What is the source of the "growing need"?  Is it:
>  >> [snip]
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> I agree that this needs to be stated, but someone other than me will have
> to do it.
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> I believe that the primary push for this functionality comes from regions
> which use Latin alphabetics with diacriticals; and that most individuals
> in regions which do not use Latin script are accept the use of Latin
> script for multinational interchange.  In many regions where Latin
> diacriticals are used, there is no acceptable transform of a surname to a
> form that does not use diacriticals.  Simply omitting the diacritical
> causes (at least to the inhabitants of those regions) a misspelling.
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> This set of beliefs naturally biases how I approach the problem.  The
> problem statement must be free of bias, including mine.
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> -- Mark --
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