On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 01:33:38PM +1200, Glen Eustace said:
As Blair has noted, IDN had to start somewhere, and it has, that the downstream has neglected it is regrettable.
For those I talked with that were actually interested in an IDN, email was the biggest concern. I don't know whether support in the common clients (and MTAs) is any better than it was a year ago. I haven't looked at it since then.
Last Sunday, at an infants birthday party, (so no beer, but reasonable recollection), I had an illuminating conversation with a man currently contracting to Microsoft on a Maori translation of some major piece of MS code (I thought he said Windows 8, but I may have misheard that, on reflection it seems implausible). So it seems likely that if you want a client that can deal with macrons, they're available. Whether that filters back to the standard versions that non Maori writers use, who knows. Cheers simon -- Simon Blake simon(a)katipo.co.nz Geek for hire +64 22 402 0044