- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:14:09 +0000
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- CC: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, Matitiahu Allouche <matial@il.ibm.com>, Jony Rosenne <rosennej@qsm.co.il>, www-international@w3.org
Martin Duerst wrote: > > >Note that I am already forced to type "http://" (though it's not the > same problem). > > Yes. It's not yet clear how that problem will get solved. In fact, I am not an enthusiastic defender of I18N with excess. But, as Jony said, let's hope more I18N for "younger generation" ;-) Najib > Maybe browsers will offer a little drop-down menu in the > language of the user interface, maybe things will work > out more or less because everything is mostly HTTP anyway > (on billboards,... one rarely if ever sees ftp://, and > usually also http:// is just left off), or maybe there > will be a new standards effort. > > However, the issue at hand in this case is quite different > in various ways. Different domain names in different scripts > are just different domains. Different URI schemes in different > scripts would identify the same URI scheme. This creates > quite different issues for interoperability. > > Regards, Martin. > > -- Najib TOUNSI (mailto:tounsi@w3.org) Bureau W3C au Maroc (http://www.w3c.org.ma/) Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs, BP 765 Agdal-RABAT Maroc (Morocco) Phone : +212 (0) 37 68 71 74 Fax : +212 (0) 37 77 88 53 Mobile: +212 (0) 61 22 00 30
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