<pedantic>
Disagree with Don on B – (classical) Latin has *fewer* characters than English (no “j”, no “u”, and no “w”)
</pedantic>
I’m OK with C in spite of it’s limitations.
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Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Language - how do you refer to non-ASCII to a non-technical audience?
I’d agree with Richard.
If you’re speaking to non-technical people whose native language is English then C is the best option.
ASCII doesn’t mean anything to most non-geeks / techies.
I usually use an example when writing about IDNs. In Irish the simplest one is:
Seán vs sean
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Date: Friday 29 July 2016 at 21:08
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Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Language - how do you refer to non-ASCII to a non-technical audience?
C works here…it’s just less imperfect than the others. Agree with what many have said on this thread…the “right” answer is audience and contextually specific.
Richard Merdinger
VP, Domains - GoDaddy
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Date: Sunday, July 24, 2016 at 8:14 AM
To: Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org>
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Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Language - how do you refer to non-ASCII to a non-technical audience?
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org> wrote:
I’ve been grappling with this for la very long and now find out I’m not the only one.
So, how would you simply refer to IDNs.
a) non-ASCII - probably technically correct, but would your grandmother know what this meant?
b) non-Latin - Not even close to being correct as Latin character sets have all sorts of extra bits and bobs
c) non-English - Currently my favourite at the moment.
I’m looking for something really short.
Your thoughts?
Don
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