[Ietf-not43] l10n/i18n issues

Andrew Newton anewton@ecotroph.net
Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:38:24 -0500


Eric A. Hall wrote:
> 
> I'm not saying that these aren't livable costs, just raising the point.

It's my guess that this will actually be a corner case and not the norm. 
  However, I don't think it is right to stipulate 7bit ASCII as a must, 
as this seems like a policy decision.

>>   In addition, postal information should have a format identifier.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. If you mean what I think you
> mean, then I'm not really sure its necessary since the individual elements
> of the address data are provided as discrete units -- street address,
> city, state or province, etc -- and their "format" ordering could
> theoretically be handled with localization.

I'm not sure why you want to tokenize or transform any of the components 
then.

-andy