idna folding (was Re: idna-bis and '?')

[Erik van der Poel]

To me, this sounds as though one should not be mapped to the other at
registration time, so I don't understand why people would be
interested in treating them as the same codepoint at registration
time.

Erik

On Dec 16, 2007 2:52 PM, Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no> wrote:
> Erik van der Poel skrev:
> > Hi Patrik,
> >
> > On Dec 16, 2007 12:50 AM, Patrik Fältström <patrik at frobbit.se> wrote:
> >
> >> First of all there is a difference between mappings at time of
> >> resolution, and at time of registration.
> >>
> >> If we start with the registration mappings, people do have interest of
> >> treating for example swedish and norwegian o with diaeresis / slash as
> >> the same codepoint.
> >>
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, are there any Swedish or Norwegian company or
> > personal names that are written with o-diaeresis or o-slash, and would
> > any of them be offended if their names were displayed with the one
> > that they do not normally use themselves in printed matter, business
> > cards, logos, etc?
> Is water wet?
>
> FYI - my son is named Torbjørn, while Patrik's son is named Torbjörn.
> Neither would accept having his name written the other way in his own
> country, but both would agree that they have the same name.
>
>                        Harald
>
>