Casefolding Sigma (was: Re: IDNAbis Preprocessing Draft)
Gervase Markham
gerv at mozilla.org
Wed Jan 23 16:46:25 CET 2008
Michael Everson wrote:
> The idea that Greek users should not be allowed to use final sigma is
> shocking to me. There must be a technical solution found for them.
As always when I jump into this debate, I risk making a fool of myself, but:
Given that this is a unique or near-unique case, can't you push the
problem upstairs to the application level? Have IDNA only permit
non-final sigma, even in the final position, and make applications
translate a typed final sigma to the non-final form before doing a
lookup, and back again for display as necessary.
(Note that I'm not promising anything on behalf of the Mozilla project
here :-)
Gerv
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