Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

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The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 11:10 +0200, Clayton wrote:

See: áéíóúàèìòùâêîôûäëïöüñÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙÄËÏÖÜÂÊÎÔÛçÇñÑ
and more: ćǵḱĺḿńṕŕśẃź

I can understand why people would want these localized characters in
their domain names. It totally makes sense from a localization
aspect.

Yep. However, it will bring new problems. One of them is trying to spell directions over the phone - imagine you wanting to come for a vacation to Spain and been told to go to <www.españa.com> (it exists) :-P


On the other hand, I also really sympathize the frustration Doug expressed.

Actually, you do not need to use those addreses. Very probably they will be of local interest only, and if not I guess the owners will also register a "plain" name too, for international usage.

In any case, those "strange" names have a plain counterpart that is what is really searched for in the DNS. For instance, the above link is in fact <http://www.xn--espaa-rta.com/>

There may be a Compose key somewhere... but I've never heard of it
used it... being basically monolingual, with just enough knowledge of
Dutch, German and Spanish to get myself into trouble, I haven't
"needed" a Compose key, and I suspect the vast majority haven't
either.

X'-)

It might be a very good idea that this is enabled by default
in .Xmodmap (if it isn't already? I'm not at home right now so can't
check to see if Carlos' instructions work for me)

I believe it is enabled by default.

and that this is
clearly documented somewhere (ie keystrokes for the different chars).
If we can make it clear that typing these chars is relatively easy to
do, this might ease the pain of the transition a little....

It is documented, but I don't know where. At least, the existence. I learnt about it when I first came into linux and tried to find a usable editor. I found "vi", and I ruan away as if followed by a mad dog: it remided me of "edlin". Then I saw "emacs", and... couldn't run, because there was nought else (later I found joe). And emacs insisted on a "compose" key, and a "meta" key... so I learnt about it.

Also, my computer at the time has a US key and I needed to type accents and such, so I found out how to type them in Linux.

- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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