AW: Eszett and IDNAv2 vs IDNA2008

Georg Ochsner g.ochsner at revolistic.com
Fri Mar 13 09:49:33 CET 2009


> Consider a little-used word like Fußball and point it somewhere other
> than fussball.de  Regardless of the linguistic subtleties of some words,
> most users will expect ß and ss to behave the same.  Even if it weren't
> true in Germany, would a German web site really want to risk that a
> Swiss or Austrian customer might hit a competitor's site?

You mixed it up, in Austria ß is used exactly like in Germany.

Georg



More information about the Idna-update mailing list