[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Even the "merging" part wouldn't work.
Merging is certainly painful. It becomes incredibly painful if you insist, as the IDNA proponents do, on merging lowercase characters with uppercase characters. On the other hand, _selection_ is easy. We can point to a fairly large set of useful characters whose glyphs can be readily distinguished. If we prohibit other characters, rather than trying to map them to the selected set, then we won't have the merging problems. Of course, eliminating those other characters from Unicode itself would be foolish. The characters are useful in many other applications. ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
