Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
People can and will use their own languages on the Internet - in email,
on the web, and in domain names, and without regard to their location
in either the physical world, the currently topology of the network,
or the TLD of the host they are using at the
One reason the IDN thing is so daunting is the work arounds are not that
bad. For instance, you can embed a backgroundless GIF into a web page and
have any ideogram link to a URL. That's nearly ideal in many ways.
only if you assume that people "nearly" always get domain names
(or things
Dan Kolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
One reason the IDN thing is so daunting is the work arounds are not that
bad. For instance, you can embed a backgroundless GIF into a web page and
have any ideogram link to a URL. That's nearly ideal in many ways.
Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
only if
Magazines have absolutely no interest in making it possible to enter URL
sucessfully you find in a printed publication.
they do a much better job when the URL appears in paid advertisement copy.
keep it simple. roughly: be tolerant in what you receive and
conservative in what you send - (to promote interoperability).
vint
At 05:11 PM 12/7/2000 -0500, Dan Kolis wrote:
General question:
Jon Postel got amazing results... Many of the old(er) timers in this
business must have talked to
I have refrained myself from participating in this discussion so far but it
got to a point where i feel there is a need for clarification.
a) Discussion here assumed that balkanize of the Internet = IDN.
Why so? Probably because IDN is bring something most people here
not able to
