Table-building

Harald Tveit Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Thu Feb 1 23:53:34 CET 2007



--On 1. februar 2007 13:49 -0800 Erik van der Poel <erikv at google.com> wrote:

> On 1/31/07, Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no> wrote:
>> The discussion has exposed literally dozens of cases where the answer to
>> "should the property be true or false" is "We don't know yet".
>>
>> It is clearly stupid of any registry to allow the registraition of such
>> characters, given that the property MAY end up false.
>> It is equally stupid of any application developer to deny the attempt to
>> lookup such characters, given that the property MAY end up true.
>
> Somewhat related to this, MSIE7 currently does not allow the lookup of
> a URL containing U+03F7 or U+03F8. Firefox 1.5, on the other hand,
> will cheerfully lookup xn--mza or xn--nza, respectively, even though
> U+03F7 has a lower-case mapping to U+03F8 in Unicode 4.0.
>
> I think I prefer MSIE7's behavior.

Why? (3F7 = GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SHO, 3F8 = GREEK SMALL LETTER SHO)

and - would your preference change if MSIE7 had the same behaviour 5 years 
from now when domain names with 3F8 were registered?

               Harald



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