Re: [alac] [Fwd: [ga] potential IDN issue with Greek language]

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, nameprep (or, more precisely, stringprep table B.1, as
referenced by nameprep; see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3454.html)
appears to specify a case map from capital greek letters to
lowercase greek letters.  So this seems to be an implementation
problem with some specific registrar, not a specification problem.

Regards,
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On 2005-01-14 09:20:06 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> From: Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ALAC <alac@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:20:06 +0100
> Subject: [alac] [Fwd: [ga] potential IDN issue with Greek language]
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> This (if confirmed) is exactly one of the points we were making in our 
> draft IDN statement, as a consequence of the lack of proper equivalence 
> tables...
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> -------- Messaggio Originale  --------
> Oggetto: [ga] potential IDN issue with Greek language
> Data: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:43:16 -0500
> Da: Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Rispondi-A: sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Organizzazione: Hermes Network Inc.
> A: General Assembly of the DNSO <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I have observed the following (what I believe to be) shortcoming in the
> functioning of the IDN standard(s) as applied to the Greek language.  It
> appears that one can register a name in lower case Greek characters, and
> then still be able to go ahead and register the same name in capital
> letters separately.  Of course, this also means that one can register
> mixed capital variations of a name as well.  Methinks this is not
> something to be desired by potential IDN registrants in the non-ascii
> Greek language.
> 
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
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