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<div dir="auto">In the light of Mats response, I wanted to point out again that the ecosystem of browsers is shrinking, and that Microsoft switched to Chromium as engine for Edge, and thererefore if the issue will be fixed in Chromium it will be presumably be fixed in Edge as well.</div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">Am 22. Aug. 2019, 3:46 PM +0200 schrieb Mats Dufberg <mats.dufberg@internetstiftelsen.se>:<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:</span></b> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Latingp <latingp-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Bill Jouris <bill.jouris@insidethestack.com><br />
<b>Reply to:</b> Bill Jouris <bill.jouris@insidethestack.com><br />
<b>Date:</b> Monday, 19 August 2019 at 15:32<br />
<b>To:</b> ICANN Latin GP <latingp@icann.org><br />
<b>Subject:</b> [Latingp] Latin Small Letter Sharp S (ß) U+00DF</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">For example, consider Option 2 (Sharp S and double S as blocked variants). (For this discussion, assume a TLD using the Sharp S exists. Thus the TLD which only differs by having a double S is blocked.) If the user enters a valid domain name using the Sharp S, on a browser which uses IDNA 2003, the browser converts it to double s before going to the DNS. The DNS doesn't find the name, and so the connection fails. Whereas a browser with IDNA 2008 goes to the DNS with the correct name, and the connection succeeds.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Does this constitute a change of behavior? Absolutely. But is this change, "instability" if you will, a significant problem? I would suggest that it is not. To call it a significant problem is to argue that bugs should not be fixed. A bug fix, after all, necessarily results in a change of behavior; that is its whole purpose. Back-level software (which IDNA 2003 is) will always give problematic results. That's why we upgrade.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Certainly an ideal solution will have no misconnection under either level of IDNA, and no failed connection when the user enters a valid domain name. But unless we find such a paragon, we will need to find the "least bad" solution. And having this additional data in front of us will help with that.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Second, I want to comment on the Option for Sharp S and double S with no variant relationship. I have a question for those who are more fluent in German than I -- which is most of you. Are there any examples of two different German words which are identical except that one is rendered with a Sharp S and the other is rendered strictly with a double S? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Bill Jouris<br />
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bill.jouris@insidethestack.com<br />
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