<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Erik van der Poel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erikv@google.com">erikv@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Wil Tan<<a href="mailto:wil@cloudregistry.net">wil@cloudregistry.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> 1. I wonder how many domain names stored (as part of URLs in bookmarks, or<br>
> hyperlinks in a document) contain ideographic full-stop in the real world.<br>
<br>
</div>In May 2009, 0.000014% of all hyperlinks in documents in Google's<br>
index contained (IDNA2003) non-ASCII dots in the domain name.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks Erik. That's good to know.</div><div><br></div><div>The only reason I asked the question was to say that perhaps the folding of full-stops can be done at keyboard input time so it could be out of scope for the IDNA2008 protocol. Having them in hyperlinks would also mean that the URI parsing or domain name parsing routines would also have to take that into account, which means it probably warrants some care to be taken in the protocol document if we are not to break backward compatibility.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't recall seeing this issue being raised at today's meeting. Might folks have discussed it face-to-face?</div><div><br></div><div>=wil</div></div>