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

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 3:00 AM +0900 1/7/01, Martin J. Duerst wrote:
>Also, because ACE maps to ASCII, it is only a very restricted
>encoding of the UCS. Can you imagine a terminal emulator for ACE?
>An XML page starting with <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ACE'?> ?
>An editor that reads in a file in ACE, allows to edit it, and
>write it back out again? It's possible to create such things,
>but they won't be useful at all for IDN, because kind of
>data has a special pattern of where domain names appear.

ACE was never meant for anything other than host name parts. Saying 
"it doesn't work well for things that it was not designed for" is 
both true and wholly irrelevant.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium