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<p class=MsoNormal>I shudder at bringing this up, but it’s come up a few times
in different threads and different contexts recently. (Yes, some by me, others
not). I believe that the current plan of changing the IDNA2003 eszett behavior
is a bad idea. Even worse, I believe the drafts have arrived at this position
as an accident of the evolution of the process and not well-reasoned behavior.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>My understanding of the situation (I’m going to
oversummerize, and no, I’m not going to go re-read all the eszett archives, I
only have a week before vacation <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The working group decided that mappings were bad
(this thread is eszett, not mappings).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Germany realized that with no mappings they’d
have an orphaned letter, eszett, and they really want to be able to type fußball
at the UI level.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The working group agreed that interfering with
fußball was unhealthy and so eszett ß was added.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>A tremendous amount of discussion reintroduced
mappings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>German feedback indicated that mappings were solved
the eszett case.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>The eszett continues to remain a breaking change
from IDNA2003.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>There are some words in German (like fußball) that SHOULD be
spelled with an eszett. There are even a few words that become homographs if
the eszett isn’t used. It should also be pointed out that in other German
speaking locales, the ss is preferred, and even in Germany it is used as an
alternate spelling in some contexts. SS or ss is often used instead of ß for
stylistic reasons if nothing else.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I believe that the logic used to add eszett was sound at the
time since mappings were prohibited, however with the reemergence of mapping
that logic is no longer sound, nor is it even the request of the group that
made the initial suggestion.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Additionally there are some problems with eszett being
distinct in a mapping environment. It is 99% linguistically equivalent to ss
(or SS), and “anyone” who registered an ß domain would probably also register
the ss version. Certainly at the moment IDN still doesn’t have 100% adoption,
so the ss form is more common in a domain name.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>As I mentioned I don’t think the original request for the
eszett is still valid in the current context, and I believe it was withdrawn.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Lastly, it’d be an unnecessary breaking change, and really
bad for fußball.de to go somewhere other than fussball.de. You’ll even note
that fussball.de uses the brand with ss (granted, likely initially because of
ASCII limitations), despite being a .de domain.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Please revert the eszett behavior.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Shawn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=JA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Code2000'>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Code2000'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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