- From: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:49:15 +0100
- To: John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>
- CC: Mark Davis ☕ <mark@macchiato.com>, Vint Cerf <vint@google.com>, "PUBLIC-IRI@W3.ORG" <public-iri@w3.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, IDNA update work <idna-update@alvestrand.no>, uri@w3.org, "www-tag.w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 23/08/13 16:13, John C Klensin wrote: > Agreed, with a few qualifications. First, for reasons > explained by others in this thread, IDNA2008 allows mapping to > correspond to well-understood local needs. Global and > non-selective use of the same mapping in every instance of a > particular browser, or by all browsers, is inconsistent with > that intent. That distinction is purely philosophical in the > vast majority of cases but may be quite important to the > exceptions; we should not lose track of it. I'm happy to maintain the distinction, while noting that "if it works in one place, it works everywhere" has been a touchstone of Firefox's implementation of IDN. (This is why, for example, we have avoided the idea that a particular IDN domain name's functioning or Unicode display should depend on which languages are installed on your computer.) Gerv
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