(keitai-l) Re: VeriSign's IDN plug-in

From: Jon Ellis <Jon.Ellis_at_Sun.com>
Date: 06/18/02
Message-ID: <3D0EF0A9.1050503@Sun.com>
At least for a while it has got to be a great way to reduce
the amount of spam you get. ジョン@エリス.net isn't going to
 occur to many spammers and even it does it stands a good
chance of crashing their mailer!

Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Benjamin Kowarsch wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wonder how well this is going to work for Japanese IDNs, given
>>multiple kanji readings ...
>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25698.html
> 
> 
> I don't see how readings would make any kind of difference, other than
> the usual problems that can be expected with any system.* This just
> encodes the unicode representation of the kanji, and leaves it at that.
> Readings (in the sense of yomi) never come into it.
> 
> * There are, of course, multiple ways of representing the same word,
> which might cause confusion. For example, does toshiba.co.jp also get
> to have 東芝.co.jp? How about とうしば.co.jp? Not to mention
> トウシバ.co.jp and the half-width version of it.
> 
> cjs
Received on Tue Jun 18 11:38:50 2002