----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Nordmark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Soobok Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Erik Nordmark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [idn] Cut&paste discussion
> > "Is copy&paste implementable consistantly & properly under IDNA?" and "How > > to implement IDNA's copy&paste in specific OS platforms?" are different > > questions. Do you agree? > > Sure look like different questions to me. > > > The former one was discussed, not the latter. > > Patrik's and others discussions about cut&paste on MAC vs. the X window system > sure seemed like it was touching on the latter question of yours. It may have seemed that way if you assume the problem resides only in X-windows system. However,even in MAC OSX and MS Windows, you can lauch "telnet(ssh) yourhost.com" and launch TTY-based MUA like mutt or pine in it, as in X-windows. Therefore, I think IDN strings' copy&paste implementability issues is not GUI issue, but rather embedded/layered/tunneled (i don't know better term) application architecture issue present in ALL operating systems and GUIs. that is, tty-based applications are presented to end user through purely textual applicaton like telnet,ssh,xterm, and there copy&paste operation on specific pattern of 18n strings in the text screen should be special than those for any other patterns of strings. That problem exists in all Operating system environments ,so that is not a implementation specific issue, but a implementability issue common in all OS and GUIs. > > But my question was really whether folks would find benefit in having a > separate mailing list for discussing implementation issues with IDNA > in general. I agree that the latter one should be discussed in other place, while the former one is still our issue. > > Erik
