Hi Matthias! Matthias Wimmer wrote:
(snip) > Yes ... but do you like to use latin characters in your mail address? I > don't think so and because Jabber allowes users to register with nearly > every unicode string as their username they do it (I know of even two > users at my (German) server that registered with asian characters). > And even (or just because) you don't use non-ASCII characters in RFC822 > mail there is the problem what to do with mails these users write. What > will be the sender of these mails after they have been gated to the > RFC822 world? As for latin mail address, I don't like them nor hate them. I can live with them as far as I can have Japanese display names. Most mailers' address book can have both display name and mail address for one entry and you can search an address by which one. As for mail body, we in Japan use iso-2022-jp encoded plain text, or MIME encoded HTML text. We don't use 8 bit characters because old mail transfer agents were not 8-bit clean and chops the most significant bits. (snip) > One example, think of the user 崰渰뤰퐰ﰰ줰朰@amessage.de he could be > translated to the RFC822 address jabber@崰渰뤰퐰ﰰ줰朰.amessage.de and > with the current DUDE coding this would be > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the wire. (snip) > (Note: to see the above example your mail reader has to support UTF8.) My mail reader supports UTF-8 and I use "Lucida Sans Unicode" font, still I can't see above example. Characters are displayed as white boxes with black borders. Sad, but it's the way it is. > Any comments about this? Well, maybe I am too conservative, but I think we should use only latin characters for IDs (e.g. mail address). Non-latin characters are ok in attributes (e.g. display names or mail body). Even when every software becomes Unicode aware and everyone has Unicode fonts, I think this rule should not be changed. For people all around the world, the least common denominator of characters is latin. They may not recognize nor distinct Japanese names. So I think we should stick to latin IDs. It is OK to use non-latin IDs if all users of that application are from the same country. As for Jabber, I am happy with latin JIDs as far as I can have non-latin nicknames. This is my opinion. Now I would like to listen to other people's opnions. -- )Hiroaki Nakamura) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
