Re: [ga] Re: On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet

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Stephane and all,

My comments and remarks interspersed below.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>
>Sent: Oct 15, 2007 7:44 AM
>To: Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: GA <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ga] Re: On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet
>
>
>On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 06:05:10PM +0300,
> Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
> a message of 101 lines which said:
>
>> its written as ???????????? and correct word should be ????????????
>> 
>> p.s: email sent via UTF-8 encoding
>
>Not everyone can read UTF-8 and even if they do, they're not always
>able to display it. You should have used Unicode code points (and
>ICANN should have do it, too, instead of pictures and Punycode).

Very much agreed.
>
>So, writing under the control of an Arabic-speaking colleague, do you
>mean that the first letter of the TLD should be U+0671 (ARABIC LETTER
>ALEF WASLA) or U+0627 (ARABIC LETTER ALEF) instead of the U+0625
>(ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW) used by ICANN?
>
>If so, I suggest to report the bug to ICANN. They cannot know all the
>languages and scripts of the world.

ICANN's language knowledge discrepency organizationally is of their
own lack of diligance and consideration.  Hiring good arabic speakers
and translators is not a expensive or difficult task.  
>
>
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