Re: [idn] What's wrong with skwan-utf8?

["Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>]

At 01/01/03 16:37 +0100, Patrik F$BgM(Btstr$B‹N(B wrote:
>Existing implementations of UTF-8 will not be possible to use, so we have 
>to update quite some amount of code regardless of what solution is chosen.

Nameprep is needed at one or two crucial points; for the rest,
off-the-shelf UTF-8 tools can be used.


>Also, I want you to please differentiate between implementations of 
>standards and the standards themselves. RFC 821 took 6 years to clearify 
>in RFC 2821...

Well, UTF-8 is also being clarified; some clarifications happened
just recently. I'd hope we could avoid the same timespan for ACE.
If all the intellectual energy that currently went into various
ACE proposals went into upgrading protocols and implementations
for UTF-8, we would already be quite a bit ahead.

Regards,   Martin.