RE: Urdu IDNs: Characters in domain names

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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