IDNA Comparisons

[Vint Cerf]

I am with Gerv on this one.

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On Jul 16, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Gervase Markham wrote:

> On 16/07/09 13:28, Mark Davis ⌛ wrote:
>> I put together a table that shows the assignments made by IDNA2008  
>> and
>> IDNA2003, respectively. I would urge people to review these for  
>> problems
>> before Stockholm. For example, do we particularly want a hue and cry
>> from the blind community because the rules exclude Braille?
>
> Braille is, according to my limited understanding, a method for  
> encoding
> another character set in a form readable by people without sight. (The
> version I know of encodes something pretty like ASCII, but perhaps in
> other places in the world there are other versions encoding other
> character sets.) I therefore can't see why one would want Braille  
> domain
> names; surely one would create the domain names in the character set  
> in
> question, and convert that to Braille on output (e.g. using Braille  
> TTY)?
>
> Gerv
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