- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:42:18 +0900
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>, "'Sarmad Hussain'" <sarmad.hussain@nu.edu.pk>
- Cc: "'Jonathan Rosenne'" <rosennej@qsm.co.il>, <www-international@w3.org>, <public-iri@w3.org>, <psayo@idrc.org.in>, "'Maria Ng Lee Hoon'" <mng@idrc.org.sg>, "'nayyara.karamat -'" <nayyara.karamat@nu.edu.pk>, <cc@panl10n.net>
At 03:18 07/08/24, Richard Ishida wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp] >> Sent: 20 August 2007 07:37 > >> As an example, consider the TLD for Switzerland, "ch". >I think it's important to note that this only works well because people >writing any of the Swiss languages or English can easily type the letters >'ch' from their keyboard. If the TLD had been ch I guess you wrote both 'c' and 'h' with some 'decorations', but these got lost somewhere. >I think there would have >been a lot of problems. I think that, if we are to use non-latin characters >for script-based TLDs, they must only be characters that are readily >accessible from keyboards of people writing any language that uses that >script. Yes indeed. For Latin, this happended the right way due to the fact that up to now only basic Latin letters were allowed in domain names anyway. Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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