From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 20:29:22 CDT
hi,
1) I am looking at a set of legacy applications that would like to extend user
IDs to support international characters.
It is not possible to update all of the applications simultaneously to fully
support unicode, so I am considering an algorithmic mapping of the
international IDs to an ASCII-based encoding and a layering similar to how
domain names were extended to be international.
However, I am curious as to whether some Users might read/write their names
using compatibility characters (esp. in ideographic markets) and object to the
characters being normalized through nfkc. I thought it might be like someone
spelling their name incorrectly. I don't know enough about ideographic names or
the compat. characters to evaluate if it would be perceived as a problem by
users. If any CJK experts would comment on this, it would be appreciated.
2) I am also getting questions about the robustness and stability of the GNU
libidn implementations of stringprep and punycode which are being considered. I
would be glad to hear privately if you have used them and what your experience
was/is.
tia
tex
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