Re: [alac] [Fwd: [ga] potential IDN issue with Greek language]
On 2005-01-14 14:21:31 +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> Well, nameprep (or, more precisely, stringprep table B.1, as
Apologies, that's B.2.
> referenced by nameprep; see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3454.html)
> appears to specify a case map from capital greek letters to
> lowercase greek letters. So this seems to be an implementation
> problem with some specific registrar, not a specification problem.
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> On 2005-01-14 09:20:06 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> > From: Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: ALAC <alac@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:20:06 +0100
> > Subject: [alac] [Fwd: [ga] potential IDN issue with Greek language]
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> > This (if confirmed) is exactly one of the points we were making in our
> > draft IDN statement, as a consequence of the lack of proper equivalence
> > tables...
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> > -------- Messaggio Originale --------
> > Oggetto: [ga] potential IDN issue with Greek language
> > Data: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:43:16 -0500
> > Da: Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Rispondi-A: sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Organizzazione: Hermes Network Inc.
> > A: General Assembly of the DNSO <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > I have observed the following (what I believe to be) shortcoming in the
> > functioning of the IDN standard(s) as applied to the Greek language. It
> > appears that one can register a name in lower case Greek characters, and
> > then still be able to go ahead and register the same name in capital
> > letters separately. Of course, this also means that one can register
> > mixed capital variations of a name as well. Methinks this is not
> > something to be desired by potential IDN registrants in the non-ascii
> > Greek language.
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> > Sotiris Sotiropoulos
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