IDNA Comparisons

Eric Brunner-Williams ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net
Fri Jul 17 18:11:22 CEST 2009


I've asked also John, and until I did, the idea that tactile encoding 
could have a feel that was distinct from the toAscii value was something 
I didn't appreciate.

However, if you want to assert the literal equivalence and therefore the 
non-necessity, well, you know how consensus works.


John C Klensin wrote:
> --On Friday, July 17, 2009 08:39 -0700 Gervase Markham
> <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote:
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>> ...
>> Checking the Wikipedia entry on Braille seems to support my 
>> understanding. But perhaps, if there is still doubt, asking a
>> Braille  user might be more fruitful than further speculation.
>>     
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> As implied by my prior note, I've asked.  I've asked several
> and, over the years, worked with several, including some whose
> preferred form of computer output involved text-to-Braille
> converters attached to either Braille writers/embossers or
> tactile devices that presented Braille a line at a time.  That
> preference seems to be getting less common these days, with the
> more common preference being screen scrapers and text-to-speech
> programs for the completely blind and a combination of them and
> high-powered screen magnifiers for the partially sighted, but it
> is still a preference with some.  The screen scraper folks are
> either not relevant to this discussion or make the "Braille is
> just an alternate presentation form" argument even more
> important because (i) no one I've talked with is aware of a
> Braille-to-speech program capability, even though it wouldn't be
> especially hard to build one and (ii) reading Braille
> differently from how the text is read would create serious
> confusion.
>
> Again, none of those folks would claim to speak for the broader
> community, but we have asked, we have consulted relevant
> references, and your conclusion seems to be the correct one.
>
> Various sign and pictographic languages are an entirely
> different matter.
>
>     john
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