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Re: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)
- To: Mark Davis <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>, Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)
- From: Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:12:54 -0500
- Cc: ietf-imaa@imc.org, idn@ops.ietf.org, ietf-822@imc.org, ietf@ietf.org, ietf-pop3ext@imc.org, lemonade@ietf.org, discuss@apps.ietf.org, ietf-imapext@imc.org, ietf-smtp@imc.org
- In-reply-to: <00a001c39d65$b23177f0$7900a8c0@DAVIS1>
- References: <E1AEH14-000N0E-GD@psg.com> <00fd01c39ce8$b6f19fe0$79d52b09@DAVIS1> <Pine.WNT.4.60.0310271656320.860@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <014c01c39cf4$5675cd60$79d52b09@DAVIS1> <Pine.WNT.4.60.0310271846580.3944@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <20031028095243.A1525@lustre.dyn.wiw.org> <Pine.WNT.4.60.0310272027210.2428@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <00a001c39d65$b23177f0$7900a8c0@DAVIS1>
it appears to me that this thread is not very different from the idn
considerations on usage of idn in the world. So what is really new in this
discussion?
Marc.
-- Tuesday, October 28, 2003 07:10:59 -0800 Mark Davis
<mark.davis@jtcsv.com> wrote/a ecrit:
>> > (I agree that it's currently nearly impossible to use computers if one
>> > isn't familiar with the Latin script, of course.)
>>
>> Which probably makes the rest of this discussion academic, unless we're
>> going to undertake solving *that* problem for Microsoft and the various
>> UNIX/Linux vendors...
>
> It is currently impossible to use the Internet without knowing the Latin
> script. However, the goal of most well-designed client software and
> operating systems is to permit the user to work entirely within their
> native language, with a fully localized system. This is reaching to India
> and other countries; Microsoft has introduced fully localized versions of
> Indic Windows just recently, and Linux vendors are hard at work to
> produce fully localized versions of their software.
>
> Email and Web addresses are the big remaining holdouts for most people.
> People should not be forced to use a script that they are unfamiliar
> with, just to use email addresses and sites in their own countries. Even
> if they are familiar with the Latin script, it is very often a very bad
> match for their languages, making it very difficult to figure out how
> native words would be spelled in it.
>
> Mark
>
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