Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?

[Masataka Ohta]

Claus;

> vint cerf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote:
> > Incorporating other character sets without deep technical
> > consideration will risk the inestimable value of interworking across
> > the Internet. It CAN be done but there is a great deal of work to make
> > it function properly.
> 
> How do I type chinese characters? I can't. So I can't write mail to  
> someone whose email address contains non-ASCII characters if I don't  
> already have the address in electronic form (e.g. within a webpage).

Right.

And, if a mailto URL is within a webpage with a chinese character
anchor, it does not matter whether a mail address in the URL
consists of pure ASCII characters or not.

> It's worth nothing that my computer could handle the address if I can't.

You properly understand that the current ASCII DNS is already
fully internationalized.

                                                        Masataka Ohta