I'm ok with different examples; I just think that having some examples would be good to make the point.<br><br>Looking forward to your responses. My comments are quite brief, so please let me know if any of them need more clarification.<br>
<br clear="all">Mark
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:08 PM, John C Klensin <<a href="mailto:klensin@jck.com">klensin@jck.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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--On Monday, 07 July, 2008 14:55 -0700 Mark Davis<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><<a href="mailto:mark.davis@icu-project.org">mark.davis@icu-project.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> For historical reasons, English does have a special place in<br>
> DNS. The purpose of IDNA is to erase that distinction as much<br>
> as possible, allowing characters needed by any language. The<br>
> point here is not about that general issue, but that *not<br>
> every character that people thinks are part of words in a<br>
> language* is necessarily going to be in IDNA. And as an<br>
> example of that, even English in its 'special' position does<br>
> not get perfectly ordinary, common words like "don't".<br>
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</div>Mark,<br>
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I want to think further about whether I can come up with good<br>
constructive examples, but I tend to agree with Frank that the<br>
identification of contractions as words is a little dubious and<br>
hence that these are not the most wonderful examples. I do note<br>
that the name of the 50th state (the one in the middle of the<br>
Pacific, for those for whom that is a better reference) cannot<br>
be spelled correctly in ASCII, much less as an LDH string.<br>
There are also several words in English that were imported from<br>
other languages, mostly French, for which the preferred<br>
spellings in most authoritative dictionaries retain diacritical<br>
marks or other decorations. Better examples might lie in those<br>
directions.<br>
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Still studying your other comments.<br>
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best,<br>
<font color="#888888"> john<br>
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