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RE: [idn] Comments on protocol drafts
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: RE: [idn] Comments on protocol drafts
- From: Karlsson Kent - keka <keka@im.se>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:17:31 +0100
- Delivery-date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 05:18:31 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
> From: RJ Atkinson [mailto:rja@inet.org]
...
> I'll also note that ISO-8859 and UTF-8 do not support all
> European languages
> equally well, nor does either support other Romanised
> non-European languages
> (e.g. Vietnamese) equally well.
I don't understand. Do you find minor differences in the length
of octet sequences between encodings to warrant a statement of
"does not support ... well"? I find it nearly, though not totally,
irrelevant. Certainly UTF-8 supports very many scripts world-wide,
which none of the 8859 parts do, nor ever will, even all together.
And we are not talking about tebibytes or pebibytes of "8-bit"
data (per server) here, are we? (Or are we??) The only concern
is that we might hit a specified (and slightly conservative)
number of octets length per name limit, in the event of rather
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong names. (Although
that limit appears very hard to change, unfortunately.)
Kind regards
/kent k