Re: [idn] Interactions between short-term and long-term

[D. J. Bernstein]

Dan writes:
> Just think of a text editor where it recognises I am typing a host
> name in the middle of some text and starts messing around.

The idea is an extra input mode---and that shouldn't be necessary in
most locales. Does your keyboard produce any non-KC-normalized strings?

> A domain name must be matched case insensitivly, but a lot of programs
> (Unix have a lot of them) do not.

Details, please. Which programs are you talking about?

---Dan