On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:32:46 +0800, James Seng said: > to your opinion but please do so in other place, and not here. The group > is suppose to work on Internationalization of Email address > (identifiers), not debate whether we need it or not. Any group that addresses "how" and "for which contexts" without having a good grasp on "why" is inventing solutions in search of problems. Mark actually *does* have a *very* valid point - on today's internet, if you cannot recognize and enter the glyphs for at least c, h, m, o p, t, w, ':', '@', '.', and '/' you are effectively unable to use the internet. It may not make any sense to you, but you can at least recognize and enter them (note that this same issue was one of the biggest arguments against the .biz domain). So.. having established that if they're currently using the internet, they can at least recognize and enter the Latin glyphs, this raises a number of *very* important questions: 1) Is there reason to *not* expect said knowledge of Latin glyphs in the future? If not, what user group(s) will be literate but not know the Latin charset? 2) Is a "community" approach acceptable? Is usage of Han OK as long as you're interacting with other Han users, or are the issues of leakage too high? 3) What *are* the issues of leakage? What am I expected to see if I get some Han, and how am I to interact with it? Equally important, what does the Han user do with my leaked Latin-A characters? 4) Here's a somewhat related issue - looking at the U0100.pdf from www.unicode,org, I had to enlarge page 2 quite a bit before I could see the difference between the glyphs at 0114/0115 (capital/small e with breve) and 011A/011B (capital/small e with caron). And I know my way around most of the Latin characters - our hypothetical Han user is going to be swinging in the breeze if he gets a business card with e-caron on it. And if you can't safely put e-caron on a business card, why are we bothering?
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