Subject: RE: [idn] NFC vs NFKC

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:16:05 -0700

[Sorry, sent before being done.]

> > >>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.
> 

[Edit] Is that because nobody uses these anymore, and so you would not
expect a modern invention like IDN to appear in an anachronic way? Is that
the case with all LEGACY characters?

> YA