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Re: [idn] IDNRA comments
This is one of the major concern in the Beijing meeting. Prof Tzeng raise the
concern that if UTF-8 & RACE is functionally equivalent, it makes no sense to
convert them to-and-back unnecessary.
-James Seng
Keith Moore wrote:
>
> I doubt that we should constrain or expect applications to use any
> particular internal representation for characters. If we expect them
> for instance to use UTF-8, they may then need to do multiple
> conversions, e.g.
>
> input format -> UTF-8 -> RACE
> RACE -> UTF-8 -> output format
>
> which hardly seems desirable.
>
> Keith