At 16:11 25/03/2005, Gervase Markham wrote:
James Seng wrote:
i thought the ideas they have was pretty interesting
choose the scripts you use most often that you like to display normally but otherwise, will display in punycode.

What sort of effect do you think it will have on IDN acceptance and use if companies using IDN domains know that their domain name will display as gobbledygook in an unknown percentage of their customer's browsers?

They will not if they are "babel names", ie names registered for their punycode display, such as "xn--cocacola.com".


I made a list in using Simon Josefsson oline tool and a small funycode program for Adam to test them. What he did. I do not remember the names I gave: I tried a few like xn--adam-costello.com, xn--vint-cerf.ibm, xn--gw-bush.com, etc. Many worked. If I am right the most brillant was xn--ibm.com which called for a single character IDN. The main issue is that if you TM the Unicode name there is nothing to be done.
jfc



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