hi, 1) I am looking at a set of legacy applications that would like to extend user IDs to support international characters. It is not possible to update all of the applications simultaneously to fully support unicode, so I am considering an algorithmic mapping of the international IDs to an ASCII-based encoding and a layering similar to how domain names were extended to be international.
However, I am curious as to whether some Users might read/write their names using compatibility characters (esp. in ideographic markets) and object to the characters being normalized through nfkc. I thought it might be like someone spelling their name incorrectly. I don't know enough about ideographic names or the compat. characters to evaluate if it would be perceived as a problem by users. If any CJK experts would comment on this, it would be appreciated. 2) I am also getting questions about the robustness and stability of the GNU libidn implementations of stringprep and punycode which are being considered. I would be glad to hear privately if you have used them and what your experience was/is. tia tex -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCraft http://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -------------------------------------------------------------
