Complete folding of han ideographs in Internationalized Domain Names
Discussion in the working group of Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) has raised the issue of Han folding: folding Han ideographs that are treated to be equivalent during domain name comparison. This paper addresses the complete folding of Han ideographs in IDN. Firstly, the folding is locale-independent: Han ideographs that are treated to be equivalent in one country can be folded with other equivalent ideographs in another country. Secondly, the folding is complete: all well-accepted equivalent relations in any country are included in the folding. We address and analyze issues such as the side effect and ambiguity in Han folding. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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