I think there is a need to have a place for such a puncturation marker mapping universally, perhaps in the layer above [nameprep], since there are Bidi issues and other peculiar markers which have to be there for the users whereever they are. Leaving this to locals will bound the users to particular servers who supports the convention.
Liana On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:53:44 -0600 "Eric A. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ben wrote: > > > If it is not possible to update all the protocol and application, > then > > how about just mapping the Chinese Full Stop to the English Full > Stop > > (as suggested by the authors of TSCONV-03.txt). Would that be a > > simpler solution (atleast for now)? > > Such a mapping would only apply to encoding sequences and would > therefore > be limited to the label contents. It would not apply to the > separator. > > I think that the best hope for this is to figure out a way to handle > it as > part of a localization service. > > -- > Eric A. Hall > http://www.ehsco.com/ > Internet Core Protocols > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/ >
