On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:12:44PM +0200, Erik Nordmark wrote: > > idna-11 says: > > > 3) ACE labels obtained from domain name slots SHOULD be hidden from > > users except when the use of the non-ASCII form would cause problems or > > when the ACE form is explicitly requested. > > Seems like John is asking for > 3) ACE labels obtained from domain name slots SHOULD be hidden from > users when it is known that the environment can handle the non-ACE form, except > when the ACE form is explicitly requested. > > When it is not known whether the environment can handle the non-ACE form,
The next two options are "mutually exclusive" ones ? > the application MAY use the non-ACE form (which > might fail e.g. by not being displayed propertly) or it MAY instead use the > ACE form (which will look unintelligle to the user). how about to add this ? "or most preferrably, it MAY use both forms displayed side-by-side". BTW, if IDN display issue deserves this specification, why doesn't IDN copy&paste recommendation have its place in the document ? I think copy&paste is a kind of higher-layer communication protocol between processes which may reside on the same machine or on the two different machines. That requires proper negotiations between applications/OSes to work correctly. Soobok Lee
