From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 17:10:24 CST
Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote:
> Speakers of German and Polish are at least used to being forced to
> mangle their languages to fit in with American ideas of what letters
> are acceptable, by avoiding letters which they were using in their
> countries at a time no one was writing anything in America (Mayan
> writing having died out before the Europeans arrived, I think). But
> don't assume that the same is true of speakers of Kobon and Sencoten,
> who may be entirely unused to their languages being mangled in this
> way, and whose languages may actually be rendered unintelligible if
> certain distinctions are lost.
If you think this is a no-brainer, you are welcome to join the IDN
mailing list at <idn@ops.ietf.org>, where there is no shortage of people
who are quick to proclaim that IDN was a terrible idea because it
facilitates phishing. As usual, the truth lies somewhere in between
(Doug's Law).
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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