On 2/12/2019 12:33 PM, John Levine wrote:
In article <1A1FCA40-9172-4FCF-AC8B-2A4A1FE3E11A@verisign.com> you write:
should look into requesting an update of UTS#46 to add the “Armenian dot” or in the protocol itself (e.g. a mapping solution)? No -- the problem is that you need different mappings for different input languages. See the message I just sent.
What about URLs that are in a document or database? There's no "input language" for them. (Or not necessarily one). I think for things like separators, the only thing that works is a generic set of acceptable ones that will be converted, so that no matter from where you access a URL it will work the same. Whether such mapping would be sensitive to the *script* of some character found in the domain name, that's another matter. A./