Fwd: "International Domain Names" support in KDE

Thiago Macieira thiagom at wanadoo.fr
Tue Jan 28 00:42:52 GMT 2003


Marc Mutz wrote:
>The reason for ß -> ss is the case mapping. There is no upper-case
>version of ß. You'd write "FUSS", Austrians sometimes "FUSZ".
>
>The umlauts, OTOH, do have upper- as well as lowercase versions.

My point is that they are equivalent in the German language, but not in IDN. 
So www.uni-tuebingen.de is not the same as www.uni-tübingen.de. My guess is 
that the .de NIC will just have to distribute the e-forms and the 
umlaut-forms accordingly.

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