Carl W. Brown wrote:
It would certainly seem that the optimal solution would be to
carry the locale.
Not at all, and for a good reasons: I need that, whenever and wherever I
type in a certain string, I reach the same web site.
Scenario:
Imagine that I am a customer of Äöü, a (fictionary)
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:04:39AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now imagine that someone registers a domain "www.äöü.com" and built on it a
perfect replica of www.aou.com, with the sole purpose of grabbing passwords
from Italian turists in Scandinavia, to make their bank accounts much
To all:
A have invited Drummond Reed of XNSORG to join the Unicode discussion. I
forwarded the previous messages to him so that he could get caught up with
this thread. I hope I did not miss any. (Someone needs to fix the message
archives.)
We can now give Mr. reed a warm welcome and let Tom
.it names would follow the Italian rules. This should avoid most of the
problems discussed so far.
Carl
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Carl W. Brown
Marco,
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In XNS 1.0, XNS personal, business, and general names all
follow the same normalization rules:
These normalization rules only work for ASCII, so why bother using
Hi, Carl.
(You replied privately; was this intentional? If not, you can resend it to
the list, and I will re-send this one).
A better choice, IMHO, would be to normalize by *decomposition*. In this
way, the problem above would be addressed by rule 3 below.
I think you have a very good
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Just to clarify, I have no connection with the XNS project
(other than as a
user), but posted the info about it as of possible interest
[...]
I am certainly one of those who made the impression of addressing Tom
himself, as if he was the author of the proposal.
I
Marco,
I sent them an email and invited them to join the discussion.
Carl
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Just
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Hi, Carl.
(You replied privately; was this intentional? If not, you can resend it to
the list, and I will re-send
you can register two distinct names "bit" and "bit"
The informal feedback I had gotten was that (given only these options!)
Turks would prefer (A) over (B). If people canvas their Turkish collegues,
that would be more information.
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For purposes of name registration uniqueness, the only significant
characters are numbers and letter as defined by the Java isLetterOrDigit
function returning TRUE. This function determines if a character is a
letter or digit according to the Unicode 2.0 standard
There is another serious problem:
Characters sharing the same glyph, but being different.
In Russia, users of TeX got annoyed when they got the error message
unknown command sequence when they had typed in \TeX. It is known
if and only if all three letters are latin. There are 8 possible
Just to clarify, I have no connection with the XNS project (other than as a
user), but posted the info about it as of possible interest to listees as
an interesting effort to use the Unicode Standard in a limited operational
way over the internet.
The people doing this are www.xns.org and
The people doing this are www.xns.org and www.onename.com.
One needs to
visit their sites and read their "white papers" to get a full
picture of
what the purpose is and how they are using the standards.
Note that there are other naming initiatives, including the one driven by my
company,
Thanks for providing the information.
I have a question:
Does the algorithm normalize character strings so that
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
is equivalent to
LATIN SMALL LETTER E followed by a COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT?
Ed Hart
Edwin F. Hart
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The Johns Hopkins University
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