Subject: RE: [idn] NFC vs NFKC

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:14:11 -0700

> >>LEGACY: the source characters are *only* intended to be used for
> >>    round-trip mappings from legacy charsets.
> >
> >I do not understand what you want to do with those.
> >Do you suggest outlawing this category?
> 
> Yes. IDN is a new system, with the goal of being able to
> represent labels in a wide range of scripts. There is no
> need to allow artefacts of legacy character encodings,
> because IDN isn't designed to map existing names back
> and forth from other naming systems.

So you do not think it is realistic, for example, to have a document encoded
in KS C 5601, containing domain names where the labels would be written
using non conjoining Jamo.

YA