From: Stefan Persson (alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se)
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 16:09:26 EST
Peter Kirk wrote:
> In the circumstances, and since
> as a general rule IDNs are written lower case, it might be acceptable
> for the lower case mapping of (ordinary dotless) I to be indeterminate,
> so that if I type UNICODE.ORG I might get unicode.org or unıcode.org.
>
>> ... ---maybe these registries should not allow different domain names
>> that differ only in dotless/dotted "i"?
>
> Indeed they should, just as the Swedish registry allows names that
> differ only in umlauts.
In that case, how would the browser know if "UNICODE.ORG" means that you
want to visit "unicode.org" or "unıcode.org", if both domains exist?
Maybe one could assume Turkish casing for .tr and .az domains, and
non-Turkish casing for all other domains.
Stefan
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