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Re: [idn] Unicode tagging
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] Unicode tagging
- From: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:52:07 -0400
- Delivery-date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 05:57:24 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
>> But one example of being fair is that
>> if 63 characters are allowed using ASCII, 63 characters must also be
>> allowed using ISO 8859-1 (or other latinbased character sets).
>> When we use UTF-8, the protocol will have space for more ASCII characters
>> than ISO 8859-1 characters. To be fair, ASCII must still be restricted
>> to 63 characters even if the protocol have space for more.
>> This restriction is also very important for implementors.
This proposal would completely hose languages with lots
of diacritical marks present on a single "letter", such as Vietnamese.
So I object strenuously.
Ran
rja@inet.org