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[NIIBE Yutaka]

On 10/13/2015 08:26 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> Also transliteration are a common problem.  For example
> "otto.müller at foo" -> "otto.mueller at foo" which is pretty common in German
> and there are more complex cases if it comes to Cyrillic or Japanese.
> Better leave this to the MUA.

There are multiple ways for transliteration of Japanese.  For example,
someone wants to use "si" not "shi".

I remember the case where a person in Japan named Kobayashi in 90's.

The person in a company used login name "kobayash" because of UNIX
8-character restriction (omitting the last "i").  He also had an
e-mail alias "kobayashi" which looked better (for him).  So, he could
be reachable by both addresses of kobayash at the-company or
kobayashi at the-company.

It was somehow confusing; When he sent e-mail from good MUA, it
was from kobayashi at the-company.   When he sent e-mail by a script
in UNIX (by /usr/lib/sendmail), it was kobayash at the-company.

In a new year, a new system administrator assigned login name
"kobayasi" for a freshman (also named Kobayashi), without checking
existing usernames carefully.  The freshman set up his MUA with
kobayashi at the-company (wrongly).

All replies to the freshman went to another person's (senior
Kobayashi's) mail box.
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