From: Shawn Steele (shawnste@winse.microsoft.com)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2005 - 14:59:20 CST
> > Demanding from the user that he/she needs to know and understand the
> > difference between the Kurdish Q and the English Q is defintiely
asking
> > WAY too much from the user.
> Users looking at the punycode forms of the homographic variants won't
have > a problem distinguishing between the two.
That works for this example, but that won't work at all for non-Latin
scripts. Subtle distinctions between 2 Chinese characters would be two
different gibberish forms of xn--?????? in punycode. The punycode would
be meaningless to the end user. Any solution needs to be international.
- Shawn
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