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> This is a very anglocentric view of the internet. Yes, it was. The grandparent is literally saying that, as an American, punycode is primarily a risk to them

> This is a very anglocentric view of the internet. Yes, it was. The grandparent is literally saying that, as an American, punycode is primarily a risk to them, not a feature. > Most of the problems with the full unicode set can be sidestepped by a combination of... By a combination of 4 different, complicated things that most technical users know little about and non-technical users know nothing about? And problems still remain? That doesn't bode well.

estebank 8y ago
> Yes, it was. The grandparent is literally saying that, as an American, punycode is primarily a risk to them, not a feature. ...arriving to the conclusion that six billion people[1] having a degraded experience (sometimes severely) is a good trade-off. As somebody else down-thread mentioned, browsers targeted at anglophones maybe should make Cyrillic characters always obvious, but that doesn't mean this should be the default for everyone. The part I disagree with the gp with is in that "no one wants it". > By a combination of 4 different, complicated things that most technical users know little about and non-technical users know nothing about? And problems still remain? That doesn't bode well. I don't see how "most technical users[...] and non-technical users" have any need to learn about those "4 different, complicated things", only people directly working on User-Agents and networking have any need to understand those documents. [1]: People that speak some level of English total ~1 billion https://blog.esl-languages.com/blog/learn-languages/most-spoken-languages-world/ https://blog.esl-languages.com/blog/learn-languages/most-spo...