Thanks all people on the mailing list. After reading the mails these days, i learn a lot.
Thanks to Kenneth Whistler and Chun-Hsin Wu on thread "Inputting mixed SC/TC". It is demoed how Chinese characters are inputted in most widely used OS. And show how they are used even the fonts looked different with defined in UNICODE. We uses these fonts, and we never consider they are wrong even if "U+6DF8" and "U+6E05" are displayed in the same shape. Frankly speaking, I never notice there is difference, and think they are different characters. Of course, it is outside the scope of UNICODE and computer display, and IDN.......:-( Especially thanks to James Seng, and Adam M. Costello. You teach me a fact: Chinese should be re-educated to learn how Chinese characters are used as an Identifier before we can use IDN and then we can survive in the "International" Internet. :-( As there is no objection about the story I've mentioned in my last mail. So can I conclude below? In the IDNA architecture, if Chinese want their 2^n names, a) register all allowed names (... I don't know who decide which are allowd, which are not?? ) b) configure correctly the registered names on related servers c) For those not-allowed names, apologize to their customers. Prepare answers, especially for characters that have different code points, and displayed in the same shape. And then, if the CDN of www.csie.ntu.edu.tw is "網� �.資訊系.台灣大學.教育部. 台灣" i.e., "U+7DB2 U+9801.U+8CC7 U+8A0A U+7CFB.U+81FA U+7063 U+5927 U+5B78.U+6559 U+80B2 U+90EB.U+81FA U+7063", we find that in the name, U+7DB2, U+9801, U+8CC7, U+8A0A, U+81FA, U+7063, U+5B78, U+6559 have at least 2 variants, and U+81FA, U+7063 are used twice, and there are total 2^10 names. WooWoo, What a great number it is. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
