Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?

[Masataka Ohta]

Graham;

> Leaving aside the issues of competing registries, touched upon in that 
> article, I had been wondering with the formation of IDN WG how I18N would 
> affect cross-character-type-boundary Internet activities.

Nothing.

Cross-character-type-boundary is a pure localization issue
and has nothing to do with people wrongly working on I18N.

> PS:  I think it is without doubt that it is a Good Thing that we make 
> efforts to internationalize protocols;

If only you understand what "internationalize protocols" mean.

ASCII (latin, numeric and hypen) characters are the only characters
internationally recognizable by so many people.

                                                        Masataka Ohta