[UA-discuss] [UA-EAI] Issue needs discussion and closure

[Mark Svancarek]

Cut and paste errors are a really annoying problem with RTL scripts.  So easy to make.

-----Original Message-----
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen [mailto:arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 08:04
To: Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola at open-xchange.com>
Cc: Mark Svancarek <marksv at microsoft.com>; ua-eai at icann.org; ua-discuss at icann.org
Subject: Re: [UA-EAI] [UA-discuss] Issue needs discussion and closure

Vittorio Bertola writes:
> Well, why? I mean, once EAI is widely supported, why should Indian or 
> Japanese or Russian people still use ASCII email addresses at all?

You appear to take for given that EAI becomes widely supported. That's not exactly certain at the present. IMO, if does become widely supported, then we'll have learnt enough to answer that question, and the one below.

But I'll offer an anecodotal comment which, perhaps, hints at an answer:

> ... So what difference does it
> make if it is in a script that you can or cannot read?

JFYI, I am supposed to have an Indian address, but it's broken right now, due to someone's cut and paste error. Such mistakes happen easily when you can't read or write the letters you're trying to use.

Arnt